The Sea Is History
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
Also in this combined programme
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Toutes directions
The ultimate road movie is a hypnotising audiovisual trip by Billy Roisz and Dieter Kovacic, scored by Radian. -
Há terra!
A pamphlet and cinematic poem combined, Há terra! depicts the history of cultural assimilation and displacement on the Brazilian sert&atil -
Blue Sky from Pain
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.
Film details
- Countries of production
- France, United Kingdom
- Year
- 2016
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2017
- Length
- 28'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
