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The Marsh of Sleep

Combined programme | IFFR 2005

Curated by Mark McElhatten Haunted by augurs, accidents and secret missions, the myths of history are buried and unearthed in gardens and graveyards of Fact. Warning signs passed along the way in the march of time, the shock of day, the fog of war and the marsh of sleep.

In this combined programme

  • Ssitkim: Talking to the Dead

    An investigation into the military involvement of South Korea in the Vietnam War is as much digging as exorcism.

  • Tightrope

    An apparently harmless spectacle with great tension and sinister implications.

  • Let Me Count the Ways

    Series about terrorist violence investigates personal memories, archive material and images of fear.

  • Orchard

    Largely filmed in a 19th-century ruin in Ireland, where decaying walls are entwined in tree roots.

  • End In New World

    Child-friendly version of geo-political cosmologies, brats and the destruction and creation of worlds.

  • Anaconda Targets

    Fragments from the battle between coalition troops and fighters for Al-Qaida and the Taliban.

  • Terrace 49

    Casual events such as a fraying rope or an approaching truck work towards one moment.

  • Soothsayer

    Dizzying collage of predictions of disasters, calamities and political crises by famous clairvoyants.