Forest on Location
A virtual replica of Białowieża primeval forest. Iranian singer Yazdani performs his remake of Nature Boy, a song that originated there.
12'
Netherlands
IFFR 2019
A woman and a girl discuss the omnipresence of iron that connects our bodies to the earth and the cosmos. Suggesting that residues of the formation of the universe exist in our blood, the essay film sees iron as at once transhistorical and geopolitically specific, marked by its use in the Iron Age, mining and warfare.
IFFR 2019
- 13'
- India
- 2017
- Director
- Raqs Media Collective
- Premiere
- World premiere (festival)
- Country of production
- India
- Year
- 2017
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2019
- Length
- 13'
- Medium
- DCP
- Languages
- English, Hindi
- Producer
- Magdalena Malm
- Production Company
- Public Art Agency
- Sales
- Raqs Media Collective
- Screenplay
- Raqs Media Collective
- Cinematography
- Raqs Media Collective
- Editor
- Rajan Kumar Singh
- Production Design
- Raqs Media Collective
- Sound Design
- Ish Sherawat
- Music
- diFuSed beats
Also in this combined programme
Meteorito
Mysterious ‘bird men’ seek the place the sun rises. In rituals they balance between life and death.
15'
Mexico
IFFR 2019
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 poetry.
11'
Netherlands
IFFR 2019
Terril
Painstaking analysis of the peculiar geography of Charleroi, forever marked by the 1956 mining disaster and the ecological rebirth that followed.
13'
Belgium
IFFR 2019
- Director
- Raqs Media Collective
- Premiere
- World premiere (festival)
- Country of production
- India
- Year
- 2017
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2019
- Length
- 13'
- Medium
- DCP
- Languages
- English, Hindi
- Producer
- Magdalena Malm
- Production Company
- Public Art Agency
- Sales
- Raqs Media Collective
- Screenplay
- Raqs Media Collective
- Cinematography
- Raqs Media Collective
- Editor
- Rajan Kumar Singh
- Production Design
- Raqs Media Collective
- Sound Design
- Ish Sherawat
- Music
- diFuSed beats
Programme IFFR 2019
Bright Future Short
Experimental short films and sound//vision, with live A/V performances.
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An investigation into a plane crash becomes the entry point to a web of seemingly unrelated events that appear to be deeply entangled.
28'
Netherlands
IFFR 2019
Aykan
Impressions of a city divided: no use trying to keep afloat in the tangle of images stitched together into a stereoscopic whole.
10'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2019
Birds in the Earth
Examination of the deeper questions concerning ownership of Sámi land through dance performances by two young ballet students.
11'
Finland
IFFR 2019