Baobab

Tacita Dean | United Kingdom | 2002 | 10' |

| IFFR 2003

Static camera positions and long takes are characteristic of Tacita Dean’s films, creating a sense of stillness in their moving images. Dean maps not just the objective world, but also our private worlds and traces the complex interaction between the two. The depiction of different locations is matched by dislocations in time and space: real landscapes are layered with inner, psychic landscapes defined by our own desires and obsessions.

Also in this combined programme

Amphibians
main programme short
A colony of male Little Red Riding Hoods leaves the wood to dive in a pond.
Smen
main programme short
A crash course for pickpockets – the Romanian way.
Leaking
main programme short
Everyday bodily functions mutate in uncontrolled attacks and urges.
Nailbiter
main programme short
A self-portrait with great attention to bodily functions, chaos and the grotesque.
Kaimietis
main programme short
Monologues by two individuals who yearn for new experiences in another country.
The Phantom Museum
main programme short
Random wanderings through Sir Henry Wellcome’s medical collection.
The Man We Want to Hang
main programme short
Evocation of the paintings by occult master Aleister Crowley.