Moxon’s Mechanick Exercises
Moxon's Mechanick Exercises
Knew that it had to and knew that it should: be free from the page and slide ’till reborn. Knew that it had to and knew that it would: flashlight fumbling and film tape crunching.
Also in this combined programme
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Trailer for 1000 films
A poetic evocation of a moment of celebration in the street: letting white pieces of paper float in the air.
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In Absentia
Inspired by Stockhausen’s Zwei Paare: the mental portrait of a woman who continues to write incessantly to her absent lover.
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Automatic Writing
Trying out a surrealist practice to negotiate the mysterious zone where light and absence of light come together in a productive form of instability.
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Blitze
Possibly a family scene, with father, mother and child, continuously interrupted by lightning flashes and a disquieting silence.
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Wee Three
Bit by bit the plot thickens for three school-kids in detention.
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 1999
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2001
- Length
- 26"
- Medium/Format
- 16mm
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