They say there’s only two stories in the world: man goes on a journey, and stranger comes to town. This film re-works an animation from the Department of Homeland Security, combining it with stories from the border, adventures from World of Warcraft, and journeys via Google Earth to to tell a tale of bodies moving through lands familiar and strange. (Jackie Goss)
Also in this combined programme
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You Don’t Bring Me Flowers
A geography lesson. An idyll in need of rescue, the lustrous pages of the world at your fingertips divided in two. -
The General Returns from One Place to Another
Trouble in paradise and the theatre of operations. What is more discomforting the beauty at hand or the rumble just out of view? -
Mirror World
Armed with misplaced subtitles and weapons of self-reflection Child seizes on first the Indian color-swashbuckler Aan, creating a double edged tribute -
More Than Meets the Eye: Remaking Jane Fonda
Imitation of Jane. Anorexia, Activism, Aerobics. Words from decades ago ring true as history repeats, and the U.S. engages in destructive folly on for -
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 2007
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2007
- Length
- 28'
- Medium/Format
- DV cam NTSC
