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Old Worldly

| IFFR 1999

In a rusty film can the makers found footage of dancing chorus girls from films in the forties. They cut them to the rhythm of German industrial techno and combined them with fragments from other musical and ethnographic films.

Also in this combined programme

Vassourinha: The Voice and The Void
main programme short
Life and work of the original and obscure samba singer Vassourinha who died young.
Marietta’s Lied
main programme short
Meticulous animation film made to Korngold’s song from his opera ‘Die Tode Stadt’.
Ariel
main programme short
Poetic and musical reflection on bags propelled by the wind.
Anima mundi
main programme short
‘Movement of the world’ with live music accompaniment.
Hell for Leather
main programme short
Mythical biker opera in London in 1998.
Tati
main programme short
Objects dance to the beat of the music.

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Film details

Country of production: Belgium
Year: 1998
Festival edition: IFFR 1999
Length: 23'
Medium/Format: umatic NTSC
Language: English
Premiere status: -
Director: Anouk De Clercq, Leslie Thornton
Producer: Anouk De Clercq, Leslie Thornton
Screenplay: Anouk De Clercq, Leslie Thornton
Cinematography: Anouk De Clercq, Leslie Thornton
Editing: Anouk De Clercq, Leslie Thornton
Sound design: Anouk De Clercq, Leslie Thornton
Sales / World rights holder: Argos Centre for Art and Media

Old Worldly

Also in this combined programme

Vassourinha: The Voice and The Void

Marietta’s Lied

Ariel

Anima mundi

Hell for Leather

Tati

Film details