Dusted (I Breathe the Air of Another Planet)
Combined programme
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IFFR 2006
Curated by Mark McElhatten The news from this planet is: It may be time to leave (or return). This property is condemned, this land is conquered. Infinity is always greener on the other side of the fence and space more tightly knit than anyone knew. Alien arrivals and exodus, we come and go trying to discern the difference between departure and arrival, memory and that which never was, figure and ground, inside and out, here and there.
In this combined programme
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North Southernly
Beautiful convergences: interiors and exteriors enter into a dialogue and condense onto a window in response to the colourful music of John Cage. -
Here
George Méliès goes into battle with troops led by Sir Laurence Olivier and our eyes succumb (victorious) to a clash of competing kinetic strategies an -
Total Power – Dead Dead Dead
A haiku or loveletter to the charm of two-dimensional images. The spectacle hopes for our worship and gives a loving hint towards a conspiracy. -
Sylvania
The set of Bewitched is a spiritual battleground of overlapping zones – human, alien and cyborg – in Bobby Agate’s latest ontological mystery film. -
Krypton Is Doomed
Jacobs creates an impossible space, multi-dimensional and living, against the background of a radio play in which the origins and the flight of a supe -
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Hinterlands (Open Shadow)
Partly stop-motion study of desert landscape in the Northwest of the USA and partly an animation fantasy; a sensual wall of hypnotic images and music, -
Detroit Park
The enormous carcass of the Michigan Theatre, a ruin among ruins, now serves as an inner-city car park and home for ghosts.
