According to the director: partly a lullaby for the dying, partly a lament at the dusk of cinema. With a complex visual and auditory texture, dreamlike memories of childhood and a meditative soundtrack. A chemical treatment brings the rich organic images to life.
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Abstract film en couleurs
Colourful film made without a camera, with the unexposed film material processed with pieces of film in the window of the original Super-8 cassette
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Numéro 4
The film maker uses a photo camera to film and a Super-8 camera to take photographs and reconnoitres the boundary between photography and film.
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Nuestra señora de Paris
Lyrical film about light, shot in a well-known cathedral with a free role for the lightweight Super-8 camera.
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L’irréversible chapitre III d’un roman 3 dimensionnel
Is it a film, or is it a book?
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Track Moss Bypass
New textures emerge in deliberately out of focus stroll recorded on Super-8, taking place on the reduced scale of leaves and twigs.
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Pluie de roses (à Rose Lowder)
Two ships in the Canal St. Martin in Paris, immediately recorded in a direct way on Super-8.
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Palme d’Or
Using the Super-8 camera as a brush, the film maker sketches waving palm trees in a golden glow.
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 1989
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2006
- Length
- 14"
- Medium/Format
- -
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