IFFR invited 16 independent distributors of video art and experimental film from the DINAMO network to each submit a film title on the theme 'borderless'.&nbsp;

Bright Future

Bright Future Short

Borderless

IFFR 2017

Illustration of an internet landscape in which typical images of sex and violence flash across the screen. Irritation is skilfully depicted in this animated work. (Image Forum)

Reply; Repeat Repeated; Delete; Favorite Favorited

Jannis Lenz cuts a parallel through Fatima Moumouni's performance with runners who cannot be stopped by anyone or anything. He gives their actions something weightless, almost dance-like. (sixpackfilm)

Schwerelos

home travels from the vivid memory of a place once called home, to the blurred remains of this memory, exchanged for a new reality, a new home. (Argos)

home

Filmed in the graveyard for refugee boats on Lampedusa. A story about how the value of garbage and rubbish can surprisingly change. (AV-arkki)

Waste No. 2 Wreck

A focus on the duality of film. Confusing it with vertical scratches. The film comically alludes to the circular nature of human life and the home movie genre.

Xénogénèse

A picture shot by a Magnum photographer proves to be a teasing enigma. Arabic newspapers claim it as evidence of Bangladeshi fighters in the PLO (Fatah faction). (LUX)

Abu Ammar Is Coming

Filmmaker Frank Bruinsma meets random strangers on the streets.

De hand

Erupting Super-8 film reveals its silver secrets, while a silhouetted camera operator attempts to contain the experience, while being subjected to it himself. (Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre)

Rhizomatic Directed Simulation

An ink animation on a window. Each painting is photographed and washed away, exposing the unconscious consumption of time. (Ezra Wube)

Amora

A taxi driver talks about the meteoric rocks on the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico that is famous due to dinosaur extinction.

Chicxulub – Tierra Extraterrestre

Red colours the Californian landscape; red is the blood that flows and leaves a trail to the Basque Country. "Everything of value is defenceless."

025 Sunset Red

A glitched-out experiment that combines shortwave radio clips from 1985, VHS footage from Toronto Gay Men’s Chorus 'Forte', and audio from an English language CD. (Video Out Distribution)

Troublemaker on the Frequency

When superimposing a rectangular grid on the surface of the earth, spherical  deviations have to be fixed. After all, the grid has only two  dimensions...

Grid Corrections

A man is stranded in the London borough of Dagenham, seemingly unable to move. He finds some unexplained items. (Circuit)

The Edges of Dagenham

Film Display shows how movement is created in film. Hundreds of short shots slowly become a recognisable movement.

Film Display

The Tafilalt region in the Sahara Desert was once the Rheic Ocean. 350 MYA conjures the ocean’s presence in the landscape: deep time in the folds of space.

350 MYA

A montage of freezing soap, during which ice crystals grow into complex fractal-like patterns. The soundtrack is a mixture of soundscapes and recordings of home-made instruments. (EYE)

Liquid Solid

After 28 years, Guillermina Buzio returns to Buenos Aires to collect her mother's ashes. (Vtape)

Chacarita

Two women experiment with various arduous methods to ignite a fire in this combination of negative and positive film images. (LUX)

IFFR 2025
30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025