Sometimes the supernatural lingers plainly in the most ordinary places, secret only in as much as its trace goes unnoticed. This film, full of ghosts, is both a letter to an alchemist film maker and a quiet tribute to the vanishing art of celluloid. One of the ghosts is that of Athanasius Kircher, the inventor of the first Magic Lantern (or Sorcerer’s Lamp), whose image passes fleetingly in the film.
The music, La lutte des mages (The Struggle of the Magicians) was composed by Armenian mystics Georges Gurdjieff and Thomas De Hartmann.
Also in this combined programme
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anything else and/or nothing at all
A film, a composition for sound and voices, all compressed into one work. -
Nostalgia (April 2001 to Present)
‘The picture of the world that’s presented to the public has only the remotest relation to reality.’ (Noam Chomsky) -
Transcript
Record of an evening’s eavesdropping in a New York apartment in October 1953, four months after the execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. -
Unzufrieden
Out of the window of a Berlin apartment, a banner is hanging with the exclamation: Unzufrieden (dissatisfied). -
I Remember Now, We Never Danced, I Miss You, Good-Bye
Everyday movement, woven into a dance of memory and loss.
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 2007
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2007
- Length
- 6'
- Medium/Format
- 16mm
