Dying to create life lies at the basis of the mysterious rituals of a group of Mexican ‘bird men’. In a mountainous landscape of meteorite craters, tropical rain and red earth, these bird men seek the place the sun rises.
Also in this combined programme
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The Blood of Stars
A woman and a girl discuss the omnipresence of iron that connects our bodies to the earth and the cosmos. -
Toli Toli
A visual poem linked with Guadalupian colonial heritage, weaving forgotten voices and stories together and bringing them back to light. -
Pareidolia
Abstract patterns made on 16mm film are used as source material for finding similar figurative images by an online search engine to create visual poet -
Terril
Painstaking analysis of the peculiar geography of Charleroi, forever marked by the 1956 mining disaster and the ecological rebirth that followed. -
Forest on Location
A virtual replica of Białowieża primeval forest. Iranian singer Yazdani performs his remake of Nature Boy, a song that originated there.
Film details
- Country of production
- Mexico
- Year
- 2018
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2019
- Length
- 15'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
