IFFR 1999

Multi-media show in which fact and fiction mingle seamlessly. Documentary, feature and archive material are edited live to music by Human Beings. Humiliating reality spectacle about the art of looking.

exploding cinema

Club Voyeur

Tim MacMillan

Video loop made with a 'time-slice' camera, on which one can see how two horses are killed in a slaughterhouse. The moment of death is repeated endlessly. Dead Horse unpicks the unbridgeable boundary between life and death.

Dead Horse

Electronic dance music with computer animations in live performance by music-video director Stokes (H-Gun) and Jack Dangers of Meat Beat Manifesto (also known from the Clubhit House of God)

Sawad Brooks

Beth Stryker

On-line documentary with witnesses of the Salvadorian civil war in which visitors can add stories. The results of the search engine offer an insight in to the mechanisms of the Internet, aiming to create a diaspora of stories.

DissemiNETion

Olia Lialina

Eric Loyer

Ayelet Sela

Alex Mayhew

New forms of the story, in online communities and games. With the Russian Olia Lialina, director of net.films, and Loyer of design agency Razorfish about the use of game interfaces.

The Dramatic Experience

Companies will increasingly have to look at the entertainment industry to understand what the consumer wants in the 21st century. Architect Daroff on 'event architecture' and her restaurant Mars 2112, and economist Joseph Pine on the Experience Economy.

Every Day as Cinema Experience

The Fan Experience

Sassen, one of the most important thinkers on the information society, talks about the threat to public media space. The British Mongrel collective designed a search engine for black culture on the Internet.

Future of the Independent Mediaspace

Presentation of a Masterclass on the Future of the Small Screen, in which Dutch TV and new-media directors develop innovative programme concepts together.

Future of the Small Screen: Presentation of the Masterclass

Rajko Grlic

Interactive lesson in film-making by a Croation director.

How to Make Your Movie: an Interactive Film School

Eidos director Boesky about launching the virtual star Lara Croft and Southpark fans about the way in which they sample media on the Internet. On copyrights and the relationship between an author and the audience.

Lara Croft and Fans as Desktop Movie Directors

Burt Barr

Artist Barr brings an ode to an indestructible part of American culture:  two people make out in a car. References to the typical American road movie are also evident.

Rain Piece

John Maybury

Twenty years of archive material pass by on an enormous screen in a collage made especially for this installation by the British film-maker Maybury whose film Love is the Devil is also being shown at the festival.

Read Only Memory

Digital media give a new meaning to the 'live experience', says writer Jay Bolter in Remediations. He speaks to architects Diller &amp; Scofidio about webcams, and with virtual-worlds expert Linda Stone about live communication in virtual worlds.

Real Time Live

Bukatman, professor of media studies at Stanford, on films like The Truman Show and The Game, in which the world is shown as 'mediated reality', or the world as a game in which characters roam in isolation, locked up in a controlled environment.

Realities in Search of an Author

The future of animation, for instance on the Internet and in games. With the animator of Akira on online animations, and leading Funny Garbage animator Girardi on interactive animation for Cartoon Network.

Reinventing Animation

Techno pioneer from Detroit, also known as Plastikman, investigates the new media and experiments with atmospheric dance tracks and computer animations.

Richie Hawtin

Judith Barry

Brad Miskell

Interactive video installation that is a satire on the present consumer society and ain investigation of the boundaries between the organic and the mechanical. In a humorous way, Barry and Miskell have five cyborg characters perform.

Speedflesh

New documentary forms: an Internet database in Berlin for Art + Com, artist Brooks on his installation about the Salvadorian civil war and young people as 'content providers' of their own documentary.

Transforming the Documentary

Shirin Neshat

Neshat provides in Turbulent a penetrating portrait of the clash of the sexes, between traditions and the modern era. Focusing on the Iranian woman while music brings the issue of male-women relationships to the surface.

Turbulent

Japanese techno DJ Captain Funk and Wiggle, a band that plays together on the Internet, in combination with Japanese video-collage artist Ikinushi. With guest performance by mixer K.I.

IFFR 2025
30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025