Âmes de fous
A few scenes and photos is all that remains of the film Âmes de fou. What might it have been? This performance reconstruction offers one splendid vision.
24'
France
IFFR 2019
They Shall Not Grow Old sounded like a "bad idea": Peter Jackson had worked his way through days' worth of footage documenting WWI – from which he then selected parts and had them colourised. Add the creation of a massive, multi-channel soundscape, plus the conversion to 3D, and it sounds like every film-lover’s nightmare.
WRONG! If – if – you are not a dogma-driven diehard, but rather curious, and therefore perhaps able to see the film for what it might truly be: not merely a fine commemorative documentary about the fighting men’s experience, but arguably the most expensive experimental film of 2018; an audacious work that offers new perspectives on non-fiction filmmaking. For what Jackson did was to treat the original material as if it was motion-captured, which he could then shape. That colour, stereoscopy, and all kinds of sounds were used a century ago to capture and render the war seems almost besides the point.
IFFR 2019
Programme IFFR 2019
Total cinema: from historical treasures to the edge of the technically possible – film as a laboratory of constant re-invention, an archive of dreams and futures.
Read more about this programmeA few scenes and photos is all that remains of the film Âmes de fou. What might it have been? This performance reconstruction offers one splendid vision.
24'
France
IFFR 2019
When the termination of the film Maritime Climates created a quota problem for Rīgas Kinostudijā, a shelved documentary instead became the loveliest of teenage romances!
76'
Latvia
IFFR 2019
A cinematographically minimalist prose poem crafted using nothing but the titles of movies that are lost. A reverie supreme.
8'
Japan
IFFR 2019