Informed by research and even hardcore science, these demonstrations of acoustic inventiveness illustrate that there are still original methods and techniques for opening up the universe of sound.&nbsp;

Deep Focus

Nuts & Bolts

Sound Systems

IFFR 2017

A slightly ludicrous collection of tales illustrated by shots of nuclear submarines, postmodern architecture, robots, scrapyards and supermarkets.

What Is an Apparatus?

By evoking the Mechanical Turk, a legendary chess playing automaton, Sanborn addresses the problematic relationship between art and technology.

An Epilogue

The Man Who Fell to Earth, pared down and flipped. Animals, furniture and empty vehicles are left awaiting disaster in abandoned landscapes.

The World

An intimate exploration of a studio, cluttered with all sorts of technological paraphernalia, presents an indirect portrait of the composer Laurie Spiegel.

Little Doorways to Paths Not Yet Taken

In #61, abstract moving images react to the eye movements of several visitors. The installation deals with visual perception as a dialogue between observer and observed, seen as a metaphor for similar dialogues that occur in the relations between humans and their technology and humans and their environment.

Jason Dee creates video installations that combine found footage from numerous lens-based and audio media from different eras. In this installation the surface of a wall-mounted screen has been cut and the black reverse side pulled through. Onto this dark overhanging section is projected a looped video of Buster Keaton suspended on the edge of a waterfall.

Cataract

Philipp Hartmann made a film, toured the German cinema scene with it and made that into a film too: an overview of an eclectic mix of cinemas all run by cinephiles. Shared love entails shared suffering: every Kino is under threat.

66 Kinos

Arecibo, the world’s largest radio telescope is located in Esperanza, Puerto Rico, which is also home to a critically endangered species of parrots.

IFFR 2025
30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025