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A Bag of Air

A Bag of Air

Tacita Dean | United Kingdom | 1995 | 3' |

| IFFR 1997

This short fiction was made while Dean was artist in residence in Bourges, France. Bourges was an important medieval centre for alchemy, and the film drwas upon the practice of transmuting air into gold, an elixer for live. It is about rising at dawn in a hot air balloon, trying to catch the ascending dew on its voyage to heaven. For alchemists, dew was a metaphor for the soul.

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Disappearance at Sea
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Brontosaurus
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Prelude
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Flight
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Gagging
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Jetsam
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Martyrdom of St. Agatha
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From Beyond
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To Red
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Film details

Country of production: United Kingdom
Year: 1995
Festival edition: IFFR 1997
Length: 3'
Medium/Format: 16mm
Language: English
Premiere status: -
Director: Tacita Dean
Cinematography: Tacita Dean