Light creates movement.
Black and White functions in this film as some sort of developer. There is something going on here that lies between death, love and pleasure. Appearance, disappearance, the rhythm of someone breathing allows us to hear the passing of time which ties and unties our impressions.
Also in this combined programme
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Heaven’s Gate
With Heaven’s Gate, Ahwesh employs a strategy similar to that used in 73 Suspect Words: against a blank screen, a metronomic procession of single words unfolds, gradually building into a cool, minimal portrait of the apocalyptic paranoia that runs through the American social body. While 73 Suspect Words appropriated text from the writings of Theodore […]
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Mistral
Mistral is the record of an off season journey in the south of France. Bare landscapes, burnt fields, empty villages, a still life with red wine in warm room. The grammar of Schreiner’s film parallels human physiology – the camera is as fast as the human eye in its ability to capture the moment and […]
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Rosecolored Flower
A rose in a glass vase on the windowsill. Soft Vermeer-like light falling into the dusky room, and playing through the crystal-clear water. Most of all, this yields a ‘beautiful’ picture, well-framed, wonderful colours, tone and shades. Throughout the video, the camera behaves like the eye of someone who wants to drink in this beauty […]
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Van de koele meren des doods
A lady in a Seventeenth Century dress stands on the edge of a lake and looks out over the water. When we approach her the lady lifts her dress up and we disappear underneath her skirts. In there a small theatre piece takes place. A young farm boy proclaims, and acts out how he was […]
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Spaced Odditties
Pictures from a black and white documentary about the life in fresh water, recomposed on the celluloid ribbon by an image by image collage to form new figures… repeating itself with regular intervals like variations on the same motif.
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Pony Changes Everything
A man explains global currency markets without the help of his formerly trusty rockin’ talkin’ pony, who is missing. Without the pony, the world is as disorientating as it is depressing. The audience is invited to help make order of the chaos. This film is part of the Post Pony Trilogy.
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Bouquets 26-27
Bouquets 26 and 27 are part of a series of one minute films, structured visually in the camera during filming covering a variety of subjects. Bouquet 26 was filmed in the middle of the animals in a small farm, La Terra de Mezo, perched on hillside terraces of Liguara, Italy. Bouquet 27 was shot in […]
Film details
- Country of production
- France
- Year
- 2003
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2005
- Length
- 9"
- Medium/Format
- Betacam SP PAL
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