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 subject, as textures, is linked to both interpretations. This also marks her return from animated films to direct observational work.
Also in this combined programme
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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… -
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, Brzekowski… -
Grey
A snow-covered landscape, quietness, the passing of the seasons, a permanently empty flat. Grey’s theme deals with emotional distress caused by the death of a… -
((()))
A window shuttered between a light-sensitive mechanism – ‘camera’ – and photo-synthetic aperture – ‘blinds’. Light artist Luis Recoder continues his exploration of film as… -
Monochro.me 2
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… -
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… -
Warning: Petroleum Pipeline
A photo and video collage in black and white computer animation. A desolate desert landscape is slowly transforming into a futuristic industrialized world. Indefinable machines… -
Kilvo
A remote, barren, almost unfriendly landscape: Kilvo in Lapland was the inspiration for Radian’s music, and even the accompanying visuals by Michaela Grill play with… -
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’… -
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,… -
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…
Film details
- Countries of production
- Mexico, USA
- Year
- 2003
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2005
- Length
- 3'
- Medium/Format
- DV cam NTSC