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Self-portrait Post Mortem

Self-portrait Post Mortem

Louise Bourque | Canada | 2001 | 3' |

| IFFR 2002

An unearthed time capsule, containing long-buried footage of the maker’s youthful self, reveals an exquisite corpse with nature as collaborator. A metaphysical pas-de-deux in which decay undermines the integrity of the image but in the process initiates a transmutation.

Also in this combined programme

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
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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Short film originally made as installation in which silhouettes are imprisoned in the (negative) image and a ‘loop’.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.