The mystery of the crystals under closer examination. What is it that makes them possess magic powers, as claimed by mystics thorough the ages? By growing crystals directly on film, their mystical qualities shine straight to the screen. Unfiltered, only aided by light which gracefully breaks its rays into rich visual textures. (Thorsten Fleisch)
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 -
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
- Germany
- Year
- 2004
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2006
- Length
- 5'
- Medium/Format
- 16mm
