Answer Print
Images on celluloid eventually deteriorate. In fact, a loss of colour is already noticeable in this poetic collage of recycled, predominantly magenta fragments.
5'
USA
IFFR 2017
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
Also in this combined programme
Conseil d'Etat
Footage from the 1950s evokes memories of both modernist euphoria and the Cold War. The soundtrack however refers to 1980s Belgian paranoia.
8'
Belgium
IFFR 2017
Ghost Children
A procession of cheap snapshots, most likely assembled from discarded family albums. Voices reminisce about childhood, while the camera explores the fading colours.
16'
Brazil
IFFR 2017
SERGEI/SIR GAY
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.
36'
France
IFFR 2017
- Director
- Kristy Guevara-Flanagan
- Country of production
- USA
- Production Year
- 2016
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2017
- Length
- 15'
- Medium
- File
- 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
Programme
Regained
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Essayist Georg Wasner used fragments from three films to breathe new life into a text from 1909. This was the year that Norman Angell published his manifesto Europe’s Optical Illusion, in which he warns of violent reactions to globalisation, which even then was in the air.
40'
Austria
IFFR 2017
L' amatore
In 1920s and 1930s Milan, Piero Portaluppi became a successful architect, as well as an enthusiastic filmmaker. His collection of amateur films not only illustrates his career but also gives an impression of a society increasingly under the spell of Mussolini.
90'
Italy
IFFR 2017
Answer Print
Images on celluloid eventually deteriorate. In fact, a loss of colour is already noticeable in this poetic collage of recycled, predominantly magenta fragments.
5'
USA
IFFR 2017