as close as possible/as far as possible
With tones of nostalgia and magic, a universe is revealed, where imagination and personal memories seem impossible to separate. (Winnipeg Film Group)
7'
Canada
IFFR 2018
Bowl Me Over is an animated road movie painted directly onto film. Travelling down the highways that carve through the unpeopled wilderness of New Zealand's South Island, Mitchell pays homage to Colin McCahon, Mina Arndt and Rita Angus: local artists whose work was inspired by the landscape. (Circuit)
Also in this combined programme
The Deep West
A solo man dances to music on his headphones on a Santa Monica beach, while a story of racist aggression is casually discussed. (LUX)
6'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2018
An Infinite Loop for Resistance ft. Aldo Tambellini
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)
6'
USA
IFFR 2018
It Was Still Her Face
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)
8'
Germany
IFFR 2018
- Director
- Lissa Mitchell
- Country of production
- New Zealand
- Production Year
- 1995
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2018
- Length
- 5'
- Medium
- File
- Language
- no dialogue
- Producer
- Pictorial Research Group
- Sales
- CIRCUIT Artist Film and Video Aotearoa New Zealand
- Sound Design
- Fever Hospital
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