In the late 1930s, two Jewish teenagers came up with the story of a couple that sent their infant child on a lone journey of escape through space from an exploding planet. We all know the story: the boy would survive on Earth but would have to keep his identity secret. Were Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel dreaming out loud? Was Krypton the Old World heading into WWII and was the child escaping the fate of the Jews of Europe? The Jews then, all of us now. Jack Smith’s friends failed to convince him to make a will. ‘Why bother?’ he asked. ‘To protect your work in the future.’ ‘The future?’ Jack replied, ‘The future will be worse.’ (Ken Jacobs)
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. -
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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
- 34'
- Medium/Format
- DV cam NTSC
