Smen

Mircea Cantor | France | 2002 | 6' |

| IFFR 2003

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

Amphibians
main programme short
A colony of male Little Red Riding Hoods leaves the wood to dive in a pond.
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.
Baobab
main programme short
As more often, Tacita Dean chooses a strange, exotic location.
The Man We Want to Hang
main programme short
Evocation of the paintings by occult master Aleister Crowley.