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Old Worldly

Anouk De Clercq | Leslie Thornton | Belgium | 1998 | 23' | | 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

  • Ariel

    Poetic and musical reflection on bags propelled by the wind.

    • main programme short

  • Vassourinha: The Voice and The Void

    Life and work of the original and obscure samba singer Vassourinha who died young.

    • main programme short

  • Anima mundi

    ‘Movement of the world’ with live music accompaniment.

    • main programme short

  • Marietta’s Lied

    Meticulous animation film made to Korngold’s song from his opera ‘Die Tode Stadt’.

    • main programme short

  • Hell for Leather

    Mythical biker opera in London in 1998.

    • main programme short

  • Tati

    Objects dance to the beat of the music.

    • main programme short
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Film details

Country of production
Belgium
Year
1998
Festival edition
IFFR 1999
Length
23"
Medium/Format
umatic NTSC

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