A materialist and animist critique of European colonial history, reading the past as something entangled within the present, made up of living and dead elements. The Sea is History, made in the Dominican Republic and Haiti, is a free adaptation of the poem by Derek Walcott.
All Short films at IFFR 2017
The other films shown within Cardinal Directions
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Toutes directions
Billy Roisz, Dieter Kovačič 13′The ultimate road movie is a hypnotising audiovisual trip by Billy Roisz and Dieter Kovacic, scored by Radian.
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Há terra!
Ana Vaz 13′A pamphlet and cinematic poem combined, Há terra! depicts the history of cultural assimilation and displacement on the Brazilian sertão.
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Blue Sky from Pain
Hyacinthe Pavlides 15′A man has been locked up without knowing why. Where is he? And for how long? The camera studies the empty spaces whilst he talks.
- Filmmaker
- Louis Henderson
- Country
- United Kingdom, France
- Year
- 2016
- Medium
- DCP
- Length
- 28’
- Language
- English
- Producer
- Cédric Walter, Olivier Marboeuf
- Production Company
- Spectre Productions
- Sales
- Spectre Productions
- Cinematography
- Louis Henderson
- Editor
- Louis Henderson
- Sound Design
- Louis Henderson, Simon Apostolou
