Blue Honda Civic
Did you notice that blue car at the side of the road? A minimalistic road movie that mirrors the emotions of the driver through a series of landscapes.
11'
Finland
IFFR 2020
The main protagonist of the film is a tortoise; an ancient animal that embodies Cura, the Roman goddess of care, voiced by American vocalist Joan La Barbara. The setting is Richard and Dion Neutra's VDL Research House II in Los Angeles. Architect Neutra carefully designed his projects to elicit human sensory and emotional responses.
IFFR 2020
- 17'
- USA
- 2020
- Director
- Ben Thorp Brown
- Premiere
- World premiere
- Countries of production
- USA, France
- Year
- 2020
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2020
- Length
- 17'
- Medium
- DCP
- Language
- English
- Producer
- Ben Thorp Brown
- Production Company
- Studio Ben Thorp Brown
- Sales
- Studio Ben Thorp Brown
- Screenplay
- Ben Thorp Brown
- Cinematography
- Tomasz Werner, Jessica Fisher
- Music
- Ethan Philbrick, Joan La Barbara
- Cast
- Jules the Tortoise, voice of: Joan La Barbara
Also in this combined programme
Creatura dove vai?
Southern Italy, sometime in the past. An old peasant woman receives a mysterious instruction from a Saint to make a pilgrimage to an unknown destination.
52'
Italy
IFFR 2020
I will make up a song and sing it in a theatre with the night air above my head.
This film, made from digital stills, evokes the utopian project of Egypt's only modernist architect Hassan Fathy, a man committed to ecology and sustainability.
20'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2020
Murmuring Debris and Leaves Silently Fall
A visual exploration of the abandoned site of the former Armed Forces' Hospital in Gwangju, South Korea, through rubble, dust, weeds and one human body.
22'
South Korea
IFFR 2020
- Director
- Ben Thorp Brown
- Premiere
- World premiere
- Countries of production
- USA, France
- Year
- 2020
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2020
- Length
- 17'
- Medium
- DCP
- Language
- English
- Producer
- Ben Thorp Brown
- Production Company
- Studio Ben Thorp Brown
- Sales
- Studio Ben Thorp Brown
- Screenplay
- Ben Thorp Brown
- Cinematography
- Tomasz Werner, Jessica Fisher
- Music
- Ethan Philbrick, Joan La Barbara
- Cast
- Jules the Tortoise, voice of: Joan La Barbara
Programme IFFR 2020
Wait and See
Waiting for a film to start, it has already begun – in our mind. This programme cultivates the viewer’s patience, both in the cinema and outside.
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A camera-shy film journalist decides to inflict an experiment on himself: to film himself for 15 days. Halfway through his ordeal he opens up.
90'
Japan
IFFR 2020
Aahuti
A ritualised choreography of hands and simple objects above a section of soil offers a phenomenological journey to the essence of the cycle of life.
15'
India
IFFR 2020
Absolute Beginners
Six gene-positive people share how they cope with the onset of Huntington's disease and how it affects their life – past, present and future.
42'
Belgium
IFFR 2020