The Doll's Breath
Out of fear of losing her, a former window dresser creates a replica of his wife. An unsettling evocation of a man's descent into insanity.
22'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2020
Event
IFFR 2020
French director, writer, performer, dramatist and philosopher Patricia Allio translates her outspoken ideas to the medium of film for the first time. With her rigorously stylised debut Reconstitution d'une scène de chasse, she hangs up a portrait of artist and writer Catherine Robbe-Grillet – aka dominatrix Jeanne De Berg – who for decades organised secret ceremonies for women. This documentary portrait explores the hunt. Far from a stereotypical conception of BDSM, the film presents the complexity of a non-standard relationship of desire and inserts it into the history of painting.
Allio is developing the new film ‘A Common World’, based on a religious ritual in a small place in Brittany. Since 2004, she has established an international reputation in performance and theatre. Since 2016, she is head of the organisation ICE, which programmes an annual multi-disciplinary festival, focused on sexual, political and linguistic minorities.
Sat 25 Jan, 15:30, LantarenVenster 6, €12
Event
IFFR 2020
Programme IFFR 2020
Major voices from the art world share and discuss their work, and advance new projects by emerging artists.
Read more about this programmeOut of fear of losing her, a former window dresser creates a replica of his wife. An unsettling evocation of a man's descent into insanity.
22'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2020
With this unique, immersive installation the Quay Brothers introduce a number of motifs, images and objects from their film-in-the-making. Otherwordly.
420'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2020
Far from a stereotypical conception of BDSM, this film illustrates the complexity of female lust through words, painting and a hint of Buñuel.
35'
France
IFFR 2020