Dark Dark

Abigail Child | USA | 2001 | 16' |

| IFFR 2002

Dark Dark is an uncanny ghost dance of narrative gesture blending four found story fragments: Noir, Western, Romance and Chase. The music of Ennio Morricone provocatively interacts with the images, tantalising the audience with webs of memory, meaning and elusive folly. This film is a work of subtraction, repositioning celluloid into a funny and haunting, strangely poignant world. It creates a vortex of reflexive cinema materialised in upside-down and backwards footage.

Also in this combined programme

Self-portrait Post Mortem
main programme short
A metaphysical pas-de-deux in which decay undermines the integrity of the image, but initiates a transformation during the process.
Her Glacial Speed
main programme short
…
Then a Year
main programme short
Love letters and speculations in an outer suburb in poetic and alienating mood sketches.
Window
main programme short
Five actual minutes as an elemental cure, journeying yet standing still, completion.
Phantom
main programme short
Short film originally made as installation in which silhouettes are imprisoned in the (negative) image and a ‘loop’.
Pommes d’amour
main programme short
A series of three mirror-image video films about love, narcissism, loss and Freud’s anal phase.
Hand Eye Coordination
main programme short
Hand-eye coordination examined in an apparently simple yet very labour-intensive experimental film.