The image of a young child. The suggestion of a repeated sense of loss. This video is inspired by the game of the spool as mentioned by Freud in his theory of the fort-da. Kurtag: ‘I wanted to evoke memory, because emotions help to consolidate memories…’
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There Is Only Light
Luis Buñuel once said: ‘There is no narrative, there is only light’. Shot in Warsaw, There Is Only Light was filmed using a faulty S8 c
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A Woman and Circles
An adaptation of a film script by Jan Brzekowski (1903-1983), poet and member of a Polish avant-garde group. In 1930, while living in Paris, Brzeko
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Grey
A snow-covered landscape, quietness, the passing of the seasons, a permanently empty flat. Grey’s theme deals with emotional distress caused
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((()))
A window shuttered between a light-sensitive mechanism – ‘camera’ – and photo-synthetic aperture – ‘blinds̵
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Palm
In a Christian context, palms are a symbol of victory, a foreshadowing of rebirth. Sandra Gibson’s use of palm fronds as a purely visual subj
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La jeune fille et la mort
This video is a letter to a missing person. The spectator has the choice of either following the narration and/or observing the abstract pattern of
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Warning: Petroleum Pipeline
A photo and video collage in black and white computer animation. A desolate desert landscape is slowly transforming into a futuristic industrialize
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Kilvo
A remote, barren, almost unfriendly landscape: Kilvo in Lapland was the inspiration for Radian’s music, and even the accompanying visuals by
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Interlude
A short meditation inspired by the track Interlude by the British band Manyfingers, a Chris Cole project. The film shows a group of ‘Lookdown Fish&
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Medicine Box
Medicine Box takes as its starting point the interior of a medicine cabinet. Pills of different shapes and sizes are arranged in Morse Code fashion
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Even odd Even
The images Barbara Doser produces plunge into their own abyss. She makes videographies that have nothing to do with film. What we can see has been
Film details
- Country of production
- France
- Year
- 2003
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2005
- Length
- 4"
- Medium/Format
- DV cam PAL
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