David Gatten: ‘In some ways this is the most austere of all my films a long passage with very still, nearly static abstract landscapes with no text for almost 12 minutes.’
Also in this combined programme
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Redshift
Redshift (an astronomical term) shows the huge geometry of the night sky. It takes these formal concerns into an emotional realm and uses the figurative to express philosophical ideas about our relationship to the world.
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Trauma Victim
Robert Todd: ‘This film is based on the feelings I had (and footage I shot) last summer, driving between Maximum Security Prisons across the USA.’
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Psalm III: Night of the Meek
Philip Solomon: ‘A Kindertotenlied in black and silver, on a night of gods and monsters. In Germany, before the war: I’m looking at the river, but I’m thinking of the sea, thinking of the sea.’
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Somogyzsitfa
Experimental and humorous hymn to the countryside with beautiful images of forgotten rusticity and downy light.
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Still Frames
Still Frames is a laboratory film that was conceived and developed using the same images as Lefrant’s film Saraban.
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Cleft
Reeds and shadows, cacophony of days dissolving, dissolute, reluctant whispers, flying wild in the night, interstices suspended, anima: luminous breath, emblazoned on the exoskeleton, impinging, rib cage contracts about the heart beat, night writing reeds, twisting in the twilight.
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Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 2002
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2003
- Length
- 20"
- Medium/Format
- 16mm
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Moiree
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