A simple technique with two cameras facing each other shows a body that breaks free of its fixed form. Tik tak, flip flop, the artist doesn’t have a body any more, but is housed in a fluid, bulging form, that can dance too.
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Room 1040 San Francisco
In this latest episode in the series Doppelgänger, Gibbons is followed by his double. Confused about who he now is, he has holed up in a hotel.
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1974 in California
The story of a Scottish immigrant girl in the early 1970s who fell in love with a priest.
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Jihad
The film maker breathes new life into the word jihad, using clear colours and tight choreography.
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No, I Never Lipsync’d
For 18 years, this film maker has lip-synced the same songs and she still doesn’t know the lyrics. An embarrassing display.
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De werkgever
A short farewell conversation with a former employer motivated a reconstruction in front of the camera.
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Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 2004
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2006
- Length
- 10"
- Medium/Format
- DV cam NTSC
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