Experimental filmmaker John Smith set out with sound artist Graeme Miller and found, here and there, pieces of magnetic tape, along the street, tangled in a tree or waving from a lamppost. What do the sound fragments tell us about the context in which they were found? A sociological quest, a lighthearted form of situationalism and a simple exercise in the art of the object trouvé.
Also in this combined programme
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Soundings
Alternating between abstraction and very concrete, this film offers an adventure as much for the ear as for the eye. -
The World is too Big for Me
A video compiled from a series of 242 abstract computer drawings in a square format. -
Héros
The film is the result of an attempt to interest children from an underprivileged area of Brussels in the medium of video. -
Semi-automatic Cohen
A split-screen observation of two couch potatoes watching TV to the tones of a Leonard Cohen song (Famous Blue Raincoat). -
5%
Tony Cokes analyses and comments on the culture of pop music with as much lucidity as criticism. -
Electronic Organ Club
One episode from a series of short anthropological studies, about sounds from everyday life recorded in their context. -
Cascadence
A digital evocation of a water surface, disturbed by a pebble and reacting energetically. -
Contemporaries
An airport provides the point of departure for a reflection on movement, transport, trance. -
>Fader
The generic city, grey blocks of concrete are transformed into colourful, radiant compositions.
Film details
- Country of production
- United Kingdom
- Year
- 2001
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2002
- Length
- 28'
- Medium/Format
- Betacam SP PAL
