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Pommes d’amour

Pommes d’amour

Pommes d'amour

Nicolas Provost | Norway | 2001 | 5' |

| IFFR 2002

A series of three mirrorimage video films about love, narcissism, loss and Freud’s anal phase. The maker uses scenes from films by Resnais and Bergman to evoke a surreal, alienating and bizarrenostalgic mood.

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.
Dark Dark
main programme short
A gruesome ghost dance of the narrative gesture, in which four story fragments are combined: film noir, western, romance and pursuit.
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Short film originally made as installation in which silhouettes are imprisoned in the (negative) image and a ‘loop’.
Hand Eye Coordination
main programme short
Hand-eye coordination examined in an apparently simple yet very labour-intensive experimental film.