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28 Jan – 7 Feb 2027

Let Me Count the Ways

Leslie Thornton | USA | 2004 | 20' | | IFFR 2005

Let Me Count the Ways is an ongoing serial about violent terror and its aftermath. In episodes Minus 10, 9, 8, and 7, personal reminiscence is mixed with archive and new footage in an exploration of the interior of fear. From footage of the artist’s father on the way to Hiroshima, through references to 9/11, the phenomenology of horror and the echo of its rupture are presented with an intensity that moves the viewer from history to the present and beyond. (Leslie Thornton)

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    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.

  • 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.
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Film details

Country of production
USA
Year
2004
Festival edition
IFFR 2005
Length
20'
Medium/Format
DV cam NTSC