IFFR invited 14 independent distributors of video art and experimental film from the DINAMO network to each submit a film title on the theme 'Originals'.
Films screened in this combined programme
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Versions (2009)
Oliver Laric IFFR 2018 6′The full festival programme, including the film descriptions, trailers and schedule per day, will be available on 15 January 2020.
Versions investigates the peculiarities of original and copy: both have a different status, and the copy is not necessarily inferior to the original. (LIMA)
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Bowl Me Over
Lissa Mitchell IFFR 2018 5′The full festival programme, including the film descriptions, trailers and schedule per day, will be available on 15 January 2020.
Bowl Me Over is an animated road movie painted directly onto film that travels the highways carved through the unpeopled wilderness of New Zealand's South Island. (Circuit)
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An Infinite Loop for Resistance
IFFR 2018 6′The full festival programme, including the film descriptions, trailers and schedule per day, will be available on 15 January 2020.
This is a media-fashioned attack aimed at the disturbing omnipotence of hyperrealism and fascist banality - best symbolised by Donald Trump's burning latex effigy. (Collectif Jeune Cinéma)
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Set
Peter Miller IFFR 2018 10′The full festival programme, including the film descriptions, trailers and schedule per day, will be available on 15 January 2020.
A colossal found-footage sunset comprising 10,000 photographs, presented on 16mm. (Arsenal )
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The Deep West
Chris Saunders IFFR 2018 6′The full festival programme, including the film descriptions, trailers and schedule per day, will be available on 15 January 2020.
A solo man dances to music on his headphones on a Santa Monica beach, while a story of racist aggression is casually discussed. (LUX)
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Secret, Lie and Deaths
Véronique Sapin IFFR 2018 3′The full festival programme, including the film descriptions, trailers and schedule per day, will be available on 15 January 2020.
A metaphor for the war in Iraq unfolds underwater. The fish watches, powerless, as the star invades its territory, the bottle. (Heure Exquise!)
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It Was Still Her Face
Christoph Girardet IFFR 2018 8′The full festival programme, including the film descriptions, trailers and schedule per day, will be available on 15 January 2020.
Portraits of women. And men, who are spellbound by them. The painted portraits are revenants, omens of absence, metaphors for loss and death, objects of desire and fixation. (Light Cone)
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Mickrys
Sara Magenheimer IFFR 2018 2′The full festival programme, including the film descriptions, trailers and schedule per day, will be available on 15 January 2020.
A video about two fictional characters, as in letters, and two fictional characters, as in anthropomorphised mice, falling in love. (Video Data Bank)
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Toward Hands
Usuha Ryoya IFFR 2018 7′The full festival programme, including the film descriptions, trailers and schedule per day, will be available on 15 January 2020.
In a vast, computer-generated world, characters are pursued and attacked one after the other. Who are they? And what are they protecting? (Image Forum)
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Toward Hands
Usuha Ryoya IFFR 2018 7′The full festival programme, including the film descriptions, trailers and schedule per day, will be available on 15 January 2020.
In a vast, computer-generated world, characters are pursued and attacked one after the other. Who are they? And what are they protecting? (Image Forum)
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Trópico desvaído
Valentina Alvarado IFFR 2018 6′The full festival programme, including the film descriptions, trailers and schedule per day, will be available on 15 January 2020.
Filmed in Venezuela and Spain, Trópico Desvaído collapses various modes of representation to explore the transformative processes of geographical and ethnographic inquiry. (Video Out)
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Tracking Sasquatch (field report #4)
Christina Battle IFFR 2018 8′The full festival programme, including the film descriptions, trailers and schedule per day, will be available on 15 January 2020.
A search for the elusive Sasquatch with text generated, sourced and scoured from various articles and essays found on the internet. (Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre)
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Nixon Visions
Hans Esselius, Kjartan Slettemark IFFR 2018 4′The full festival programme, including the film descriptions, trailers and schedule per day, will be available on 15 January 2020.
The new, coffee-loving Nixon is marketed in a satirical balancing act. "A study of mental health in which the face is the mirror of the soul". (Filmform)
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Le macaour
Roman Ermolaev IFFR 2018 8′The full festival programme, including the film descriptions, trailers and schedule per day, will be available on 15 January 2020.
An intense and imaginative exploration of the materiality of 16mm celluloid, set to an original soundtrack of wicked jazz sounds. (EYE)
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as close as possible/as far as possible
Charlotte Clermont IFFR 2018 7′The full festival programme, including the film descriptions, trailers and schedule per day, will be available on 15 January 2020.
With tones of nostalgia and magic, a universe is revealed, where imagination and personal memories seem impossible to separate. (Winnipeg Film Group)
