‘One of the strangest films I have ever seen; its characters come and go as if they’re primitives posing for the camera, either obeying or fighting an ethnographer’s controlling eye.’ (Fred Camper) Shot on four Super-8 rolls while working as a development-aid worker in Surinam.
Also in this combined programme
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Our Eye
Among the things you may inherit from your parents: money, preconceptions, turns of phrase, hairline, a like/dislike of hills. And sometimes a collect -
Fear of Blushing
A homage to the power and the transience of film as material and as a spectacle of light. -
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Bautismo
The motif of waves at sea and a feminine figure suggest both a siren and a drowned person, a muse and a victim. -
Trinity
A short film in three parts (Memory, Sin, Desire) that analyses our viewing equipment as much as it analyses our desire to watch. -
ATOZ
What is the impact of an order such as the alphabet on the awakening mind of a child? A short film dedicated to Breer’s first…
Film details
- Countries of production
- Suriname, USA
- Year
- 2008
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2002
- Length
- 6'
- Medium/Format
- 16mm
