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Terra Incognita

Terra Incognita

Ben Russell | USA | 2002 | 10' |

| IFFR 2003

Terra Incognita is a lenseless film whose cloudy pinhole images create a memory of history. Ancient and Modern explorer texts of Easter Island are garbled together by a compute narrator, resulting in a forever repeatingnarrative of discovery, colonialism, loss and departure.

Also in this combined programme

Incense
main programme short
Meditating on light and space, with the aid of a stick of incense.
Schneeweiss
main programme short
The rhythm of everyday life in a convent south of Berlin.
Oh Lover Boy Theme
main programme short
A performance in which blood flows; snapshot by a radical artist.
The Visitation
main programme short
Medieval inspiration, the cinema lit like a church through stained-glass windows. The light descends and touches people.
The Thousand Faces of God
main programme short
Representations of gods from all the great religions of the world mingle into each other.
Camera
main programme short
Three tableaux about the relationship between the still camera and space.