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Jumbo Aqua

James Herbert | USA | 2000 | 26' |

| IFFR 2001

Painter/photographer/film-maker Herbert is a genre sui generis. For this film, he photographed the original 16mm material framed by frame with a 35mm camera. On screen, sensuality and sexuality, mythical and profane associations, motion and stationeriness, framing, light, diaphragm and composition vie for supremacy. We see a boy in beautiful back lighting, the girl curling in the sunlight and we experience the existential and aesthetic inevitability of the physical contact. Herbert allows us to share the act of watching and paints his models like a portrait painter. James Herbert (1938, Boston) is known worldwide as a painter, film-maker and maker of music videos.

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Film details

Country of production: USA
Year: 2000
Festival edition: IFFR 2001
Length: 26'
Medium/Format: 35mm
Language: English
Premiere status: International premiere
Director: James Herbert
Cinematography: James Herbert
Editing: James Herbert
Sound design: James Herbert
Producer: Cargo Cult Productions
Sales / World rights holder: Cargo Cult Productions

Jumbo Aqua

Also in this combined programme

Sanyu

I Only Have Eyes for You

Matrix

Mix-3 (1983-1999)

Drowning Room

Film details