Power : Play – Dieu et mon droit
Combined programme
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IFFR 2004
In this combined programme
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Manthrax
Manthrax has been created from re-edited video footage at the Mr Olympia 1980 annual body building contest, starring the then world famous muscle men Frank… -
Feathered Water (Moby Dick)
With archive material from the Imperial War Museum, Griffin shows the complexity of reactions to a strange example of military technology. At first sight, marine… -
Punch
A hand becomes a weapon. Our hands can be opened to greet, caress and touch or, as in this case, they can strike out to… -
The Whale
The Whale is a reflection of the micro-politics of contemporary events through black images, images of everyday life and offscreen narration that transcends death. The… -
Busby Berkeley’s Tribute to Mae West
The meeting of Hollywood’s most famous choregrapher and one of its most famous quotes: ‘Is that a gun in your pocket?’ (Mae West) -
Dad’s Dead
A young man tries to piece together fragmented moments from the past, memories being triggered by admiration for his best friend Johnno. As the story… -
Cultural Quarter
Cultural Quarter shows the relations between observation in the city and its inhabitants. In this way, Mike Stubbs tackles ethical questions surrounding surveillance, the look… -
MM
Like an alien spacecraft landed on a poisoned wasteland, the Millennium Dome makes a fitting tribute to the works of New Labour. Taking the Dome… -
God Save the Queen
When God Save the Queen by The Sex Pistols was at the top of the hit parade in 1976, it was promptly banned by British… -
Mother Nature
Zeke Roberts speaks about his life and how he spends his time for a project sponsored by Hull Time-Based Arts (www.speechless.org.uk). He is seen chatting… -
The Remote Controller
People Like Us samples and mixes existing images and sound from so-called Orphan Films -educational films from the Prelinger Archive in San Francisco and New… -
Till Death Do Us Join
Men in uniform, naked men, men in tailored suits wearing bowler hats. The digital video collage Till Death Do Us Join is an Orwellian vision,…