Bring Down The Walls
Artist Phil Collins uses house music to combat the racially motivated, overcrowded American prison system.
88'
USA
IFFR 2020
Although his studio is based in Mexico City, over the last 20 years Francis Alÿs has done numerous projects in collaboration with local communities around the world, from South America to North Africa and the Middle East. For Sandlines he established a collaboration with the children of a small village in the Nineveh province in Iraq.
The children of this mountain village near Mosul re-enact a century of Iraqi history, from the secret agreement of Sykes/Picot signed in 1916 to the realm of terror established by Islamic State in 2016. To make the children understand their present by revisiting their past, Alÿs invites them to perform a role play, evoking a whole world with the most modest props. It has the simplicity of puppet theatre, and is very close to the artist's ongoing project 'Children's Games', a project that is exhibited at Eye Filmmuseum in the period of the festival.
In collaboration with the Iraq-based Ruya Foundation and Julien Devaux.
IFFR 2020
Programme IFFR 2020
Familiar faces from the world of film: new work from established filmmakers, auteurs and festival veterans.
Read more about this programmeArtist Phil Collins uses house music to combat the racially motivated, overcrowded American prison system.
88'
USA
IFFR 2020
Gianikian created a montage of images from work trips to the USA and Jerusalem to accompany his deceased partner Ricci Lucchi’s wonderfully illustrated diaries.
103'
Italy
IFFR 2020
Four women struggle with the choreography Mother by Isadora Duncan, created after the death of her two young children.
84'
France
IFFR 2020