The Intimate Distance – A Tribute to Mark LaPore (1952-2005)
Combined programme
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IFFR 2006
Curated by Mark McElhatten Mark LaPore, though deeply influenced by the practices of the Lumière brothers, Andy Warhol and Robert Bresson, expanded a tradition of experimental documentary film making practiced by Cavalcanti, Wright, Rouch, Gardener, the Macdougals, Hutton and Gehr, conducting profoundly cinematic, highly distilled personal investigations into the nature of cultural flux and reverie. He has filmed extensively in rural Sudan, Sri Lanka, New York, Myanmar, India and Idaho. Many of his works have had their European premieres at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, notably A Depression in the Bay of Bengal, The Five Bad Elements, Mekong, The Glass System.
In this combined programme
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The Glass System
Largely a portrait of Calcutta, but the film can also lead us to make personal assumptions about a ‘lost’ New York. -
Kolkata
This film, a portrait of North Kolkata (Calcutta), searches the streets of the city to see how people are doing and reflects the changing landscape… -
Lunatic Princess
And magical loop of time changing form with a snow daughter, an orphan of the storm. Reminiscent of the fairy tale by Anderson about the… -
Untitled (for David Gatten)
A valentine card or a greetings card, a well meant homage to courage and perseverance in the form of a videogame that Wittgenstein could play. -
The Sleepers
Shots of the countryside of Sudan, Eastern Europe and Chinatown in New York, serenade human uprooting, insufficient information and the mutual influen