Ultramarine is a visual poem, narrating the 'exile blues' through spoken word performance, improvised rhythms and textile display. It is a poetic essay in repoliticising one of the most universal colours, which also has colonial references. Objects and documents are rendered in words by the Afro-American poet Kain, voiced in music improvised by drummer Lander Gyselinck and animated in images by Vincent Meessen. Ultramarine is composed like a spectrum: it unfolds and intertwines fragments of meaning.
Winner Ammodo Tiger Short Award, IFFR 2019.
The other films shown within Ammodo Tiger Short Competition 2
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Mum's Cards
Luke Fowler IFFR 2019 9′Hand-written index cards, filmed on 35mm: the key to stories where personal history is linked to a love of sociology.
Hand-written index cards, filmed on 35mm: the key to stories where personal history is linked to a love of sociology.
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La bala de Sandoval
Jean-Jacques Martinod IFFR 2019 18′In a rainforest in Ecuador, Isidro Varga and his brother recollect the times when a bullet and a broken bottle nearly ended his life.
In a rainforest in Ecuador, Isidro Varga and his brother recollect the times when a bullet and a broken bottle nearly ended his life.
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Red Film
Sara Cwynar IFFR 2019 13′A dizzying array of colours, textures and literary quotations point to the perfidious capitalist pressures on women to conform and consume.
A dizzying array of colours, textures and literary quotations point to the perfidious capitalist pressures on women to conform and consume.
Screenings
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Fri 25 Jan
Pathé 2
English subtitles -
Sat 26 Jan
Pathé 2
English subtitles -
Tue 29 Jan
Pathé 2
English subtitles
- Filmmaker
- Vincent Meessen
- Premiere
- World premiere
- Country
- Belgium, France, Canada
- Year
- 2019
- Medium
- DCP
- Length
- 42’
- Language
- English
- Producer
- Vincent Meessen
- Production Company
- Jubilee
- Sales
- Jubilee
- Writer
- Vincent Meessen
- Cinematography
- Vincent Pinckaers
- Editor
- Inneke Van Waeyenberghe
- Sound Design
- Laszlo Umbreit
- Cast
- Kain The Poet, Lander Gijselinck
