A crash course for pickpockets Romanian style. Mircea Cantor spent several years hitchhiking around Eastern Europe. Holding up a blank sign, he cadged rides from his native Transsylvania to Cluj, Bucharest, Sibiu and Budapest. Throughout this peripatetic twenty four year old Romanian artist’s work (he’s currently based in Nantes), travel emerges as a complex nexus of experience.
Also in this combined programme
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The Phantom Museum
Random wanderings through Sir Henry Wellcome’s medical collection.
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main programme short
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Kaimietis
Monologues by two individuals who yearn for new experiences in another country.
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main programme short
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Nailbiter
A self-portrait with great attention to bodily functions, chaos and the grotesque.
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main programme short
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The Man We Want to Hang
Evocation of the paintings by occult master Aleister Crowley.
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main programme short
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Amphibians
A colony of male Little Red Riding Hoods leaves the wood to dive in a pond.
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main programme short
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Film details
- Country of production
- France
- Year
- 2002
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2003
- Length
- 6"
- Medium/Format
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