Muktikara

Jeanne Liotta | USA | 1999 | 12' |

| IFFR 2000

Muktikara, from the Sanskrit ‘gentle gazing brings liberation’, is also the name of the particular body of water which is the image-subject of the film. Landscape as ‘inscape’. Not inertly present but beckoning an active perception; a seeing and a seeing into.

Also in this combined programme

Landsbykirker
main programme short
Alienating, poetic portrait of Danish country churches.
Zand
main programme short
In an inhospitable area, film shows the alienation between two people.
The West (SFO)
main programme short
Poetic and penetrating short documentary takes us to Hoover Dam and through Death Valley.
Arkitektur
main programme short
Impressions of landscape architecture cloaked in the light of evening and night.
da capo: variations on a train with Anna
main programme short
Bach’s Prelude No. 24 in B-minor was juxtaposed with pictures of a moving train.
Vacancy
main programme short
Personal and layered evocation of the ‘dream city’ Brasilia, made by one of the masters of the short film Matthias Müller.
Exteriors
main programme short
A portrait of a young woman and the landscape in which she finds herself.