Living rooms coolly lit by white noise on TV screens are a familiar harbinger of approaching doom in most feature films. In Cell, just this one unheimisch cinematographic element is put under the magnifying glass. A concentrated montage of countless fragments with flickering and spooky snow-covered screens from Hollywood films. This is the ultimate meta-cinema. No message, just medium.
Also in this combined programme
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Hallo
The most common word in telephone traffic leads us through the history of the phone. -
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elesyn 15.625
Abstract video that uses elementary building blocks of the signal to achieve a beautiful synthesis of image and sound. -
Three Graces
Fascinating animation film in which the tracks are followed from the first sound recordings of the human voice. -
Zimmer, Gespräche
An encounter between a Stasi officer and his informer leads to a tense confrontation.
Film details
- Country of production
- Germany
- Year
- 2006
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2007
- Length
- 4'
- Medium/Format
- Betacam SP PAL
