Maman Maman Maman
A touching and observant portrait of an annual family gathering and the absurd odyssey the grandmother embarks on after her death.
37'
Germany
IFFR 2019
Set in Noah Purifoy’s Outdoor Desert Art Museum in Joshua Tree, California, artist Cauleen Smith reimagines this unique space as a radical feminist utopia. Among the scattered assemblages, a group of women whose dynamic, colourful outfits radiate with energy, gather to re-stage an iconic photograph of men taken by Billy May for Life Magazine in 1966. While paying homage to the feminist abolitionist Sojourner Truth, the title refers to the spiritual journey these women embark upon.
Also see Drylongso, Black Utopia LP and compilation programme Calling Planet Earth.
IFFR 2019
- 22'
- USA
- 2018
- Director
- Cauleen Smith
- Premiere
- World premiere (festival)
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 2018
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2019
- Length
- 22'
- Medium
- DCP
- Language
- English
- Producer
- Cauleen Smith
- Production Company
- Nationsack Filmworks
- Sales
- Nationsack Filmworks
- Screenplay
- Cauleen Smith
- Cinematography
- Candance Majors, Kirby Griffin, Cauleen Smith
- Editor
- Cauleen Smith
- Production Design
- Cauleen Smith
- Sound Design
- Cauleen Smith
- Music
- Alice Coltrane
Also in this combined programme
Paranon
Paranon revolves around the idea of juxtapositioning fundamental elements of sound and image, by manipulating various parameters in shifting canon structures.
15'
Netherlands
IFFR 2019
These Silences Are All the Words
Madiha Aijaz’s observational documentary on public libraries in Karachi, Pakistan, contemplates the slow disappearance of the Urdu literary tradition.
15'
Pakistan
IFFR 2019
- Director
- Cauleen Smith
- Premiere
- World premiere (festival)
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 2018
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2019
- Length
- 22'
- Medium
- DCP
- Language
- English
- Producer
- Cauleen Smith
- Production Company
- Nationsack Filmworks
- Sales
- Nationsack Filmworks
- Screenplay
- Cauleen Smith
- Cinematography
- Candance Majors, Kirby Griffin, Cauleen Smith
- Editor
- Cauleen Smith
- Production Design
- Cauleen Smith
- Sound Design
- Cauleen Smith
- Music
- Alice Coltrane
Programme IFFR 2019
Ammodo Tiger Short Competition
The power of short. Twenty-four films from the short film selection compete for one of three equal awards.
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Poignant portrait of the filmmaker’s father, who died last year, told in 27 brief contemplations, including personal moments and exceptional archive footage.
25'
Canada
IFFR 2019
ALTIPLANO
Ancestral salt flats, volcanic deserts and coloured lakes transform into a vibrating Ektachrome landscape full of evocative visual rhythms in color and form.
16'
Chile
IFFR 2019
Anteu
Aesthetically pleasing, playful narrative about a boy left as the last survivor in his village. Who will bury him when he dies?
29'
Portugal
IFFR 2019