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The Letter

Pismo

Ivan Ladislav Galeta | Croatia | 1993 | 4' | | IFFR 2005

A video letter, created during the years of war in Croatia when communication with the rest of the world was difficult. It is addressed to the author’s Hungarian and British friends. The author is sending electronic flashes with his hands, and his voice delivers the message in Hungarian and English.

Also in this combined programme

  • Navigation

    Encyclopaedic collection of references to water evoke memroes of lines of verse from Virgil’s Aenead.

  • Hand of the Master

    2D and 3D pictures, combined with ‘live action’: a magic cyberspace world.

  • Glenn Miller 2000

    Intriguing and hypnotic images of a busy roundabout in Zagreb.

  • Absence

    Visually complicated reflection on a universal theme: banishment and rootlessness, pain and sorrow.

  • Das Lied ist aus

    Macabre sketch of a city that has been destroyed by irrational powers and an invisible murderer.

  • In/Dividu

    The deconstruction, decay and disintegration of the soulful and soulless.

  • Arabesque

    The geometry of the city map and traffic flows structured metrically.

  • Parken verboten

    Reactions by passers-by to a binary code, formed by black and white parked cars.
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Film details

Country of production
Croatia
Year
1993
Festival edition
IFFR 2005
Length
4'
Medium/Format
Betacam SP PAL