Here is a place, an optical location brought into being through conjuring, to accommodate a clandestine rendezvous between Sir Laurence Olivier and Georges Méliès. Méliès appears to get the upper hand, confirming that magic will always trump mere performance. Early cinema audiences, we are told, were mesmerised by the cinematic apparitions and impossible cavortings realized by the sly Méliès. Those first paying customers had, apparently, no need for plots, movie stars, or sharp ideas. Direct conjuring was more than enough. Could that work Here? (Fred Worden)
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. -
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.
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 2005
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2006
- Length
- 11'
- Medium/Format
- DV cam NTSC
