Endless scenes of men staring at female corpses. From beyond the grave an off-screen voice testifies about the forensic fetishisation of her body. This provocative accumulation of naked and abused corpses questions why Hollywood imposes such a horrific death on so many beautiful young women.
All Short films at IFFR 2017
The other films shown within Family of Man
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Answer Print
Mónica Savirón IFFR 2017 5′Images on celluloid eventually deteriorate. In fact, a loss of colour is already noticeable in this poetic collage of recycled, predominantly magenta fragments.
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Conseil d'Etat
Fanny Zaman IFFR 2017 8′Footage from the 1950s evokes memories of both modernist euphoria and the Cold War. The soundtrack however refers to 1980s Belgian paranoia.
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SERGEI/SIR GAY
Mark Rappaport IFFR 2017 36′As a teenager, Eisenstein always signed his drawings 'Sir Gay'. The waggish essayist Rappaport sees clear signs of his sexual orientation throughout the Russian director’s film oeuvre.
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Ghost Children
João Vieira Torres IFFR 2017 16′A procession of cheap snapshots, most likely assembled from discarded family albums. Voices reminisce about childhood, while the camera explores the fading colours.
- Filmmaker
- Kristy Guevara-Flanagan
- Country
- USA
- Year
- 2016
- Medium
- File
- Length
- 15’
- Language
- English
- Producer
- Kristy Guevara-Flanagan
- Sales
- Kristy Guevara-Flanagan
- Editor
- Kristy Guevara-Flanagan
- Sound Design
- Jesse Malings
- Cast
- Danyi Deats
- Website
- www.chuparosafilms.com
