A mournful, dissolving jewel set in bruised magenta sends out votive glints of dying light. A lone bird chirps and branches obscure our vision. Working from a stack of abandoned multiple film prints (nearly identical and thirteen in number), Luther Price makes reiterative loops that underline futility, echo hope, and mark every camera movement with the vain promise of a fresh outcome and inevitable predestination. (MM)
Also in this combined programme
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Catalog
From the blueprints of found family photos, Barber builds tableaux vivants in a stately fictional story about former uprooted dynasties. -
How Little We Know of Our Neighbours
The history of the British Mass Observation movement and its relationship to contemporary phenomena, from police observation to WebCams and reality TV -
Block
From day to night. A portrait of an apartment building in London, the inside and outside of which are investigated and revealed. -
Dangerous Supplement
Dangerous Supplement looks at the cultural and perspective balance between aerial shots and everyday life on the ground, between blunt intent and inci
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 2005
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2006
- Length
- 4'
- Medium/Format
- 16mm