Surface Noise

Abigail Child | USA | 2000 | 20' |

| IFFR 2001

Found footage film exploring public and private space, organised formally as a sonata.

Also in this combined programme

Frankly Caroline
Ex Voto: Mapping the Heart
The film-maker’s attempt to portray his wife by conjuring up a collage cornucopia.
Leonardo’s Diary 72
Ex Voto: Mapping the Heart
Animated drawings in the style of Da Vinci enter in a dialogue with found-footage of contemporary society.
Shaded Bandwidths
Ex Voto: Mapping the Heart
Tracking the meanings of ethereal noise while crossing a New York bridge.
Parabol
Ex Voto: Mapping the Heart
A disc-shaped aerial as a landmark in urban architecture, a mandala for the global village.
Trophäen des Alltags II
Ex Voto: Mapping the Heart
The true picture of the past rushes along. That is the only way that the past can be captured: as a picture that lights and…
De l’origine du XXIème siècle
Ex Voto: Mapping the Heart
A pessimistic prayer to help us face a new century without too many optical illusions, but with a stronger philosophy of the image.
Chimp for Normal Short
Ex Voto: Mapping the Heart
A statement on the course of civilisation made by studying a monkey at the wheel.
The Adventure Parade
Ex Voto: Mapping the Heart
The inherent violence that is intimated at in this hand-processed film can only offer a clue of past interventions.