How awfully close she is, so close I can see the breaths she takes, the way she holds that cigarette, the way her look drifts out over the lens without saying It, the thing she’s holding back, the way her words never quite manage to arrive, to enter you like a knife, and yet she takes you apart all the same. This personal essay by Mike Cartmell is part of a suite of fragments which comprise his epic work-in-progress Shipwreck Theory.
Also in this combined programme
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The Quick and the Dead
Animation based on a video fragment of the war in Iraq.
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Su Naa (My Big Brother)
A sister wrestles with her feeling of guilt after her brother dies in a tragic accident.
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Short: As Long As It Takes
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The Mendi
Canadian genius Reinke finds a new way to look at a CBC documentary.
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Short: As Long As It Takes
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Draft 9
A woman travels between Chicago and New York and experiences restlessness, fascination, fear and resignation.
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Short: As Long As It Takes
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Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 2006
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2006
- Length
- 8"
- Medium/Format
- DV cam NTSC
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