Triste is an indication of the level of cinema language that I have been working towards. By delicately shifting the weight and solidity of the images, and bringing together subject matter not ordinarily associated, a deeper sense of impermanence and mystery can open. The images are as much pure-energy objects as representations of verbal understanding and the screen itself is transformed into a ‘speaking’ character. The ‘sadness’ referred to in the title is more the struggle of the film itself to become a film as such, rather than some pervasive mood. (ND)
Also in this combined programme
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Mix 2 (21 Szenen 1997)
Spring clean by a film-maker. Twenty-one old films dusted down.
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Zócalo
Holiday snapshots of Mexico processed with the virtuosity of a dance DJ.
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Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 1996
- Festival edition
- IFFR 1998
- Length
- 19"
- Medium/Format
- 16mm
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