Shot in black-and-white as a documentary with an atmosphere midway between science fiction and ethnography, Carcasse presents a possible future. It is a life far removed from cities, where humans and animals live in sync with the rhythms of rugged nature. Everything in the inhabitants’ lives refers to familiar technologies that have been reused in novel ways. Carcasse encourages you to surrender to the landscape and further invent it alongside its people.
Clémentine Roy and Gústav Geir Bollason have been making projects on entropy in relation to landscape since 2000. They started working on Carcasse – a project that consists of this film, an installation of objects from it created with local farmers, and a publication – in 2012.
Programme
How do you prepare for a double suicide? Do you go to the same place to die together or do you decide to die at the same time, yet far away from one another? We see one of the lovers and hear him, almost tangibly, practicing his lines in a rugged landscape somewhere
55'
Spain
IFFR 2017
Animated documentary about encounters in virtual simulations of Auschwitz-Birkenau. The film follows the makers – from Poland, Germany and Israel – through their virtual camps. Each is different in style and every maker has different aims for creating such a parallel world.
48'
Germany
IFFR 2017
Boys and girls from the colourful West-African Fulani people are raised separately on the savannah. Their daily activities are regularly interrupted by rituals that lead to adulthood. Filmed up close, you can almost feel the pain and endurance that accompany the rituals and daily experiences.
59'
Belgium
IFFR 2017