The otherwise flat city of Charleroi is defined by slag heaps – hills formed from the waste from coal mines. Filmed entirely from these 'terrils', the film weaves large-scale industrial tragedy with the poetics of ecological rebirth through a data-driven narration in which the terrils are the protagonists. (Bronte Stahl)
The other films shown within Origins
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The Blood of Stars
Raqs Media Collective IFFR 2019 13′A woman and a girl discuss the omnipresence of iron that connects our bodies to the earth and the cosmos.
A woman and a girl discuss the omnipresence of iron that connects our bodies to the earth and the cosmos.
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Toli Toli
Minia Biabiany IFFR 2019 10′A visual poem linked with Guadalupian colonial heritage, weaving forgotten voices and stories together and bringing them back to light.
A visual poem linked with Guadalupian colonial heritage, weaving forgotten voices and stories together and bringing them back to light.
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Pareidolia
Nan Wang IFFR 2019 11′Abstract patterns made on 16mm film are used as source material for finding similar figurative images by an online search engine to create visual poetry.
Abstract patterns made on 16mm film are used as source material for finding similar figurative images by an online search engine to create visual poetry.
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Meteorito
Mauricio Sáenz IFFR 2019 15′Mysterious ‘bird men’ seek the place the sun rises. In rituals they balance between life and death.
Mysterious ‘bird men’ seek the place the sun rises. In rituals they balance between life and death.
- Filmmaker
- Bronte Stahl
- Premiere
- World premiere
- Country
- Belgium, Portugal, Hungary
- Year
- 2019
- Medium
- DCP
- Length
- 13’
- Language
- English
- Producer
- Bronte Stahl
- Sales
- Bronte Stahl
- Writer
- Bronte Stahl
- Cinematography
- Bronte Stahl
- Editor
- Bronte Stahl
- Sound Design
- Bronte Stahl
- Music
- John Grzinich, Harfenspeiler