The language and imagery related to celebrity perfumes are a starting point to think about consumer desires and the corruptness of branding. As if a song and a scent would give the consumer everything. A primary focus of Jesse McLean’s videos is the power and the failure of the mediated experience to bring people together.
Also in this combined programme
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Water and Salt
Through a stream of consciousness, the film reflects a woman’s contradictory feelings while far away from home during Brazil’s recent socio-political -
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. -
Blue
How to overcome the locked-in syndrome of the computer screen? A meditative reflection on the urban jungle, with the colour blue as main protagonist. -
Erpe-Mere
Surrounded by the sound of nocturnal animals, a girl falls into a deep sleep. Gradually her dream unfolds into a cosmic journey through a rural… -
Magdaleena
Magda has been captive in her own life for a long time. Her psychiatrist Dr Eyre wants to wake her up, but Magda’s mind is… -
Ink in Milk
Schizophrenia is the creative principle here, splitting up realities and reassembling them anew. Wieland evokes the hidden ruins of the psyche. -
In the Hands of Puppets
How different is online chatting from talking to a sock puppet? A rather absurd cartoon-like animation raises issues such as self-analysis and social -
La enorme presencia de los muertos
After receiving his last wage and sending it off to his home country, a house painter deliberately abandons his mobile phone on a park bench. -
escape goat
This disruptive video invites the viewer to drift through a string of surreal scenes from a sabotaged nature documentary with a quietly unsettling atm -
At the Time of the Ebb
During the annual celebration of Fisherman’s New Year, Iranian trade, tradition and customs, past and present, are still very much felt today in Qeshm -
Szeemann and Lenin Crossing the Alps
An unusual collaboration between curator Harald Szeemann and artist Rudolf Herz was set in motion in the summer of 2003: ‘Lenin on Tour’. -
A Girl Who’s Afraid of Touching People
You see the girl or you don’t. But it is clear she is afraid of touching people, and now she is going on a journey… -
Zero
A conversation between two olive trees about nothing at all. And the farmer carried on ploughing. -
Stone
This monument to Sharon Stone is entirely based on 15 chemically treated film stills. An abstract remake of the remake of the thriller Les diaboliques. -
Come Coyote
Family, Feminism, LGBTQ, Love: Come Coyote evokes the reproductive challenges of same-sex couples with sensual poetry, humour and a hint of despair. -
Smile Driver
An electric fan, a boy with eerily fast-growing eyebrows and a penchant for apocalyptic reverie: the psychological portrait of a 21st-century child? -
Not an Irrelevant Trifle
Quotes from Sigmund Freud, C.G. Jung, and L. Ron Hubbard form a conversation on technology and identity, and societies with religious foundations. -
Everyone Is Welcome Here
A 3D programme generates a strange configuration of residential units in a utopian field. An attempt to create a brand-new community defined as ‘neutr -
All Movements Should Kill the Wind
200 kilometres from Beijing, men live among rocks that wait to be hacked, cut and sanded. Once the stone monument is in place, nobody remembers… -
Action, Almost Unable to Think
An ingenious visualisation of a real-life story, focusing on the inner world of this soldier, killed in an explosion while greeting a civilian. -
A State of Grace
Good heavens! Airline safety instructions can be highly ambiguous. John Smith delivers a biblical interpretation of Ryanair’s in-flight safety card.
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 2019
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2020
- Length
- 8'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
