Every city is an archaeological layer cake of demolition, decay and scandalous erection. The rise and fall of commerce spurs the reincarnation of spaces. Movie palaces are converted into tabernacles. Churches deconsecrate and become shoe stores. Graveyards are excavated and the dead are disinterred. Parking lots bloom like weeds as plentiful as churchyards. These mutated spaces funnel faded glory, waste and buried treasure; the voices of the past and interstellar space speak in gibberish. (MM)
Also 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,
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 2005
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2006
- Length
- 8'
- Medium/Format
- DV cam NTSC
