And the only thing that would prove worse than the mystery… was the truth. Breathless neighbourhood speculation, grave moral pronouncements and passages from coded love letters overlay poignant, quietly charged scenes of a lush suburban secret. These ripples of evocative clues ebb from and a bottomless waterfall and back.
Also in this combined programme
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Self-portrait Post Mortem
A metaphysical pas-de-deux in which decay undermines the integrity of the image, but initiates a transformation during the process. -
Dark Dark
A gruesome ghost dance of the narrative gesture, in which four story fragments are combined: film noir, western, romance and pursuit. -
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Phantom
Short film originally made as installation in which silhouettes are imprisoned in the (negative) image and a ‘loop’. -
Pommes d’amour
A series of three mirror-image video films about love, narcissism, loss and Freud’s anal phase. -
Hand Eye Coordination
Hand-eye coordination examined in an apparently simple yet very labour-intensive experimental film.
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 2001
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2002
- Length
- 14'
- Medium/Format
- Betacam SP PAL
