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Ben Pointeker | Austria | 2007 | 9' |

| IFFR 2007

How do we find our way in the dark? In a cinema we are led by a series of small points of light (step lights, exit signs) that help us safely manoeuvre our way round all kinds of obstacles because they give us an idea of what our eyes cannot see. What is it that we are looking at? An exciting question we don’t usually ask when we partake of images of light in the same cinema. The path generally tends to be well lit. In this work, Pointeker plays with precisely this issue. Through a series of scenes, he takes us by the hand in the dark and leads us round in an unknown world. The picture only gets formed slowly.

Also in this combined programme

Proximity
Short: As Long As It Takes
Beautiful sliding motions on the horizontal plane of an empty landscape.
Musaic
Short: As Long As It Takes
Refined Rotterdam urban collage, made with the eyes and above all the ears of a Syrian inhabitant.
Turn
Short: As Long As It Takes
A figure skater practices her figures.
Dream’sdreams
Short: As Long As It Takes
A dreamt video world of abstract pictures and sound.
The Long Overtone
Short: As Long As It Takes
A unique cine-poem in five movements in which animation, music and movement emerge from city scenes.
Lauberhornrennen im Sommer
Short: As Long As It Takes
Hyper-realistic experience of ski descent at top speed. Satire on sports reporting.