‘Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.’ (Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939) Memories can be so fragile, so elusive and so unreliable. Using cameras and other recording devices, we try in vain to capture life as it slips by, but somehow it’s never the same. Perhaps the act of recording blurs the line between reality and memory – we’re no longer sure which is the ‘truth’. Shot in a wintry, overcast, ghostly Vienna, REPLAY explores this unsettling phenomenon. Heavy with melancholy and nostalgia, the film grieves with a sense of ‘loss’ – lost love, lost friendship, lost memory. The film maker seems to be yearning to put the clock back, to rewind, to replay.
Also in this combined programme
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SEEM
Inspired by Memory Lane by David Shea, SEEM is a film that combines seemingly clear and recognizable elements so that their meaning, but also the… -
Streaming Past, Present Moments
Thoughts and memories flow through our heads like water. You concentrate on one thing, while you are conscious of a periphery of possibilities. Just like… -
Fossilization
For Fossilization D’Haeseleer used video as a kneading machine. Layers of images are moulded into a sticky mess that absorbs and attracts everything it touches.… -
Transfixed
Bridging the gap between past and present, a series of thought pictures transcribe moments of cautionary pleasure submerged in undulating illusions of liquefied light and…
Film details
- Country of production
- United Kingdom
- Year
- 2005
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2005
- Length
- 9'
- Medium/Format
- DV cam PAL
