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Eastern avenue

Peter Mettler | Canada | 1985 | 55' | | IFFR 1994

We live in a time where things do not seem to exist if they are not captured as an image. But if you look into darkness you may see the lights of your own retina – not unlike the Northern Lights, not unlike the movements of thought, like shapeless accumulation of everything we have ever seen.Before science explained them, the Northern Lights were interpreted as visions, prophecies, spirits – a trigger for the imagination – images provided by nature framed by no less than the universe itself.Aurora borealis the lights with no bodies, pouring colours from the sky. a film exploring the capture of images from nature, images more special than any special effect.

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    –Portrayal of the cadence and the trance-like experience of a long train journey. Apart from a few titles, the video only comprises fleeting pictures and atmospheric sounds. The video forms part of a longer series about the striking topicality of the European landscape as battlefield.

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  • Stones off Holland

    –When Richard Philpott starts on a film, he doesn’t want to know how it will end. His films are also travelogues with an uncertain ending. In the first, an ironic view of the United States, planes and bird’s-eye-view panoramas play an important role. The second, a ‘travel collage’, comprises shots of e.g. piers off the […]

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Film details

Country of production
Canada
Year
1985
Festival edition
IFFR 1994
Length
55"
Medium/Format
16mm

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