Experimental and humorous hymn to the countryside with beautiful images of forgotten rusticity and downy light.
Also in this combined programme
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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. -
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,… -
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.’ -
Secret History of the Dividing Line
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… -
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,… -
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…
Film details
- Country of production
- Germany
- Year
- 2002
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2003
- Length
- 7'
- Medium/Format
- Betacam SP PAL
