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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Das Lied ist aus

Ivan Faktor | Croatia | 2002 | 18' | | IFFR 2005

Documentary scenes of wartime Osijek (the film maker’s home city) and a sound recording of Fritz Lang’s film M create a macabre portrait of a city devastated by irrational forces and an invisible killer.

Also in this combined programme

  • Navigation

    Encyclopaedic collection of references to water evoke memroes of lines of verse from Virgil’s Aenead.

  • Hand of the Master

    2D and 3D pictures, combined with ‘live action’: a magic cyberspace world.

  • Glenn Miller 2000

    Intriguing and hypnotic images of a busy roundabout in Zagreb.

  • Absence

    Visually complicated reflection on a universal theme: banishment and rootlessness, pain and sorrow.

  • In/Dividu

    The deconstruction, decay and disintegration of the soulful and soulless.

  • Arabesque

    The geometry of the city map and traffic flows structured metrically.

  • Parken verboten

    Reactions by passers-by to a binary code, formed by black and white parked cars.

  • The Letter

    A video letter, in which the author sends electronic flashes with his hands.
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Film details

Country of production
Croatia
Year
2002
Festival edition
IFFR 2005
Length
18'
Medium/Format
Betacam SP PAL