AAA Cargo
Part-fiction documentary tracing the movements of the New Silk Road. AAA Cargo follows distribution networks which are expanding across vast regions between China and Europe.
34'
China
IFFR 2018
Commodity Culture
Combined Programme
IFFR 2018
Commodification is the transformation of goods, services, ideas and people into objects of trade. Some things ought not to be treated as commodities – education, information, data, knowledge and art. Not at any price.
In this combined programme
Armageddon 2
The internet in Cuba is very slow. A green-hooded mystery man relies on a black-market system with USB drives to get his movie fix.
6'
Cuba
IFFR 2018
Art and Theft
Grappling with the constructed nature of storytelling, the playful collage of images on theft in Sara Magenheimer’s film distract us from the maliciousness of stealing.
8'
USA
IFFR 2018
Mountain Castle Mountain Flower Plastic
Experimental animation inspired by hard-drive prototypes, or how storage containers for memories are accidentally turning into an environmental film.
4'
USA
IFFR 2018
Pure Difference
Pure Difference asks its viewers "What is a number?". It deals with the inclination to rely on data as truth, reassurance, neutrality and security.
22'
Canada
IFFR 2018
Soft Film
In Soft Film, the artist collects, arranges and archives her eBay purchases of dated objects according to a logic based upon colour, material, vintage and use.
8'
USA
IFFR 2018
Programme
Bright Future Short
Bright Future Short focuses on experimental short films and features the sound//vision programme, with live A/V performances.
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Each image is paced to provoke a tense, iconoclastic revelation of a plaster-covered man taking part in symbolic acts of self-mutilation. (sixpackfilm)
5'
Austria
IFFR 2018
3rd Builders' Street
3rd Builders' Street focuses on the concrete-panel houses which appeared throughout the Soviet Union from the 1960s. The use of colour separation accentuates the dialectical image.
14'
Netherlands
IFFR 2018
AAA Cargo
Part-fiction documentary tracing the movements of the New Silk Road. AAA Cargo follows distribution networks which are expanding across vast regions between China and Europe.
34'
China
IFFR 2018