‘Il tocco means not only touch; it can also mean a small quantity, a single brush stroke in painting, the striking of a bell or piano keys. The surroundings meet the eye. The direct touch releases an interior impulse. Surfaces open to states of being. Out of this encounter arises the image. From the images, an inner place. In film, as in the mind, are brought together distant spaces and bodies, and the layerings of time. A house, a city in Italy, traffic, and the movements of people are filmed visibly in the present. But the images embrace a living and extended continuity.’ [H.S.]
Also in this combined programme
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Meditations on Revolution, part V: Foreign City
New York as a place of immigration and rootlessness, with the abstract black & white images slowly focusing on the artist and jazz musician Marion… -
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Paper Route
In a simple, sensitive and entertaining video film, Robert Frank accompanies his local newspaper delivery boy during his morning round one chilly wint -
Mekong
This song of desire investigates the overlapping sensations of intimacy and erotic desire in the Mekong delta. -
Elements
This film refers to the natural elements, that are variable and even capricious, but also to social elements.
Film details
- Countries of production
- Italy, Switzerland
- Year
- 2002
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2004
- Length
- 28'
- Medium/Format
- 16mm
