Chronicles of a Lying Spirit by Kelly Gabron
Speaking through her alter ego and a male voice, Cauleen Smith’s biography contrasts semi-true fiction with media representation.
8'
USA
IFFR 2019
Speaking through her alter ego and a male voice, Cauleen Smith’s biography contrasts semi-true fiction with media representation.
8'
USA
IFFR 2019
What is pure cinema? Henri Chomette’s answer to this question is a seminal investigation into the nature of film.
5'
France
IFFR 2019
The mystery of insect flight explored. Interpretations of a mythological and fantastical nature are illuminated in motion and time.
8'
USA
IFFR 2019
Smith brings together the forced migration of birds, the treatment of people of colour and Syracuse’s connection to the birth of stereoscopic photography.
11'
USA
IFFR 2019
Lewis Caroll’s Through the Looking-Glass illuminated. Illustrations retreat into the fibre of the page, light dissolves into the film emulsion.
4'
USA
IFFR 2019
Fragile leaves and fine threads of fungus string together, like an obscure genre of 17th century painting: Forest Floor Paintings.
4'
USA
IFFR 2019
Greetings to mankind! The five-note sequence from Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) is performed outdoors by New Orleans musicians.
11'
USA
IFFR 2019
A silent film celebrating dialogue. Choreographer Taisha Paggett dances on a grassy empty lot in Chicago, communicating in semaphore.
4'
USA
IFFR 2019
This play of observation scans Lewis Caroll's Through the Looking-Glass with magnifying glasses, used by both entomologists and filmmakers alike.
4'
USA
IFFR 2019
Stan Brakhage is attracted to creating films like an insect to light. Mothlight resurrects dead moths in the projector’s beam.
4'
USA
IFFR 2019
An intoxicating flower drenched in luminous colours and sparkling light. Such luxurious and temporary beauty shows the transience of life.
4'
USA
IFFR 2019
A recording of a piano performance by Alice Coltrane guides Cauleen Smith through three sites of creativity and generosity across the USA.
11'
USA
IFFR 2019
Delicate threads of energy spiral into mysterious cells of golden dust: these are the luminous particles of the alchemist’s dream.
3'
USA
IFFR 2019
An encounter with a mysterious, luminous substance and the mythical star jelly. Coronal Kirlian photography joined with hand-processed images.
7'
USA
IFFR 2019
A flash-mob performance of Sun Ra’s anthem Space Is the Place, performed by The Rich South High School Marching Band.
10'
USA
IFFR 2019
Glowing germs and flowers colour this alchemical 16mm miniature. Pryce spins gossamer golden threads in the silent darkness of the cinema.
3'
USA
IFFR 2019
Live performance with vintage magic lantern and handmade slides tells the story of an outlaw: a science-fiction fable for the Anthropocene.
20'
USA
IFFR 2019
Reading as a radical act. Cauleen Smith stages three readings of excerpts from Gerda Lerner’s book Black Women in White America.
10'
USA
IFFR 2019
Live performance with vintage magic lanterns and handmade slides tells the tale of famed naturalist Hudson's spellbinding recollection of birds.
15'
USA
IFFR 2019
Collage of paintings from the Renaissance, combined with hand-painted images. A portrait of stillness and silence, disturbed by the urgency of sadness.
6'
USA
IFFR 2019