Blue
A woman lies awake at night. Nearby, a set of scrolled theatre backdrops unrolls to reveal two alternate landscapes.
12'
France
IFFR 2019
A picture is worth a thousand words? Finnish artist Mika Taanila presents two series: an ultra-minimalist reduction of a film script in My Silence (On Paper) (2015) and a small library of brutally yet cleverly abused books on cinema: Film Reader (2017). Both series are extensions of previous works.
In 2013, Taanila created the video My Silence, a reductionist video that eliminated all dialogue from Louis Malle’s film My Dinner with André. Now he applied the same rigour to the original film script. Also in 2013, Taanila introduced the aesthetics of destruction in his work with the series of photograms Black and White Movies (2013). For these, he trashed his collection of VHS tapes by inflicting the same type of violence depicted in the film on the VHS cassette as an object. He then applied the same logic to books on cinema: the type of physical abuse relates to the content of the book. In collaboration with balzer projects.
IFFR 2019
Programme IFFR 2019
An invitation to the viewer to rediscover the compelling sensation of collective viewing, and the notion of togetherness in silence.
Read more about this programmeA woman lies awake at night. Nearby, a set of scrolled theatre backdrops unrolls to reveal two alternate landscapes.
12'
France
IFFR 2019
Everything happens at the edges of the frame here. The action is minimal: two lines build up an undulating pattern and unfurl again.
6'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2019
An observation on sheperd dogs during their training for police work. But these unfathomable dogs also observe us.
23'
Belgium
IFFR 2019