Déjà vu

Lisl Ponger | Austria | 1999 | 23' |

| IFFR 2000

Pictures from the world of super-8 that seem so long ago in our video age, but may say more about us than we like. Exotic tour of the world that shows how the western tourist appropriates the rest of the world. A real found-footage jewel.

Also in this combined programme

Fissures
main programme short
The film material was literally attacked in this meditation on reminiscence and obscurity.
Work and Progress
main programme short
Beautiful split-screen film about Russian buildings and spaces with fragments from early Soviet films.
Energy Energy
main programme short
Found-footage film made up of industrial films, instruction films and promotional films from the first half of the 20th century.
Death in Vignole
main programme short
Modest meditation on youth, life and mortality made up almost entirely from professionally made family films.
Blackbirds
main programme short
Hand-made, deconstructive approach to the (in)famous Rodney King / Reginald Denny beatings.
Removed
main programme short
Effective deconstruction of old porn movies using bleach and nail varnish.