Almost tangible: the scorching heat of molten glass, the green smell of chopped parsley, the brushstrokes on a painting and the fragile walls of a paper film set.
Films screened in this combined programme
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Double-Take: Leader of the Syrian Revolution Commanding a Charge
Lawrence Abu Hamdan IFFR 2016 11′Two similar paintings filmed in detail, one of the French colonial overlord, the other of a Syrian resistance leader. Tough questions about the colonial past.
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Consider the Belvedere
Tamara Henderson, Julia Feyrer IFFR 2016 10′A detective story like no other, Feyrer and Henderson’s sculptural objects serve as criminal and investigator in this playful whodunnit where the crime itself is a mystery.
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Analysis of Emotions and Vexations
Wojciech Bąkowski IFFR 2016 14′The moods of the Polish poet, musician and artist captured in a sober, yet impressive pencil-drawn animation.
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Poem and Stone
Maryam Tafakory IFFR 2016 11′The various colours, smells and flavours of Teheran are almost tangible. Can memories and the desire to be somewhere be captured in images?
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The Mesh and the Circle
Mariana Caló, Francisco Queimadela IFFR 2016 35′Fragmentary film examines empirical thinking and the tactile; full of brilliant visualisations and analogies. A fascinating labyrinth of a film.
