Programme
With her growing archive of urban images, Els Opsomer comments on and interprets global reality, which she juxtaposes with personal integrity. Also in this video letter, that she made with amateur software. In a personal report of a short visit to Palestine, she translates the lines of the letter to her friends into extensively processed and edited photos. She tries to transcend her impotence in this way.
12'
Belgium
IFFR 2004
Old Super8 images of national festivities in Brussels were edited into a snapshot documentary. The short, volatile fragments give an impression of an occupied city. On the soundtrack the `Zinnekesparade', a biennial event which aims to show the cultural diversity of that same city.
1'
Belgium
IFFR 2004
Alice, unhappy with her prim, proper existence in Victorian England, travels through time into an age that metaphorically resembles our own. There, she encounters malicious, elitist tea-partiers, a burnt-out hippie bird, rapping flowers and a philosopher cat, all before being swallowed by an assaulting music video. Her only hope for understanding this foreign world of spectacle is to somehow find Guy Debord.
23'
USA
IFFR 2004