IFFR 2007

Xander Marro

Mat Brinkman

DIY stands for do-it-yourself. That is the motto of this high-speed little film that captures something domestic in every image.

Still 16

0106

James June Schneider

A science-fiction film that itself appears to have come from a different era. Shot on 16 mm in a sparse 1970’s style, the film provides a kind of historic image of the future. An intriguing time journey.

1, 2, 3, Whiteout

Sunami Makoto

Six films made without a camera. From painting on celluloid to capturing rays of sunlight on undeveloped film stock.

6 Direct Movie Works

Ota Yo

The title is the idea. Filmed on the famous square in Paris.

Antonym of Concord(e)

Steve Roden

A film, a composition for sound and voices, all compressed into one work.

anything else and/or nothing at all

Anita Di Bianco

The camera goes looking and feeling around a building site in New York. A text by the German writer Heinrich Böll gives it a charged significance.

The Dead Souls Scandal

Noto Masaru

Chasing the possibilities of beauty, to a poem by Isshiki Mari.

Dernier Quartier de Lune

Christine Khalafian

A series of chance encounters in today’s Armenia.

Don't Leave Without News

Jo Dery

With a small bat as the protagonist and its nocturnal flight over historic and industrial Rhode Island.

Echoes of Bats and Men

Henry Hills

The festive pursuit of European trams. In the great avant-garde tradition of the city symphony. The song of old modernism.

Electricity

A compact ironic pamphlet about the capitalist look and Italian top models.

L'Eye

Marie Losier

In the tradition of slapstick with food from the earliest film comedies. And just as much fun.

Flying Saucey!

Jonathan Schwartz

Idiosyncratic impression of fall in New England, recorded before he was to die.

For Them Ending

Moon Jeong-Yun

The surroundings are rural. The old woman is alone. She goes from the house to the temple following her daily pattern. For 49 days in a row. For peace for her son’s soul. A short film as a short prayer.

The Forty-Nine-Day Meetings

Kurokawa Houshu

An endless process towards serious rubbish, that’s all we want to say about it.

Free Movie Solo Camera Improvisation

Jim Trainor

Fantastic variation on creation in which animals are given consciousness and feelings of guilt by their maker.

Harmony

Jennifer Reeves

Not film with live music, but music with live film. Double projection of a remix of earlier Reeves work for the musician Anthony Burr. Of course in the presence of Burr.

He Walked Away

Ute Aurand

Maria Lang

Intimate trilogy by two filmmakers about a mother growing older. The film captures the passing of life and light in the countryside.

Hier ist es zur Zeit sehr schön

Diane Bonder

Everyday movement, woven into a dance of memory and loss.

I Remember Now, We Never Danced, I Miss You, Good-Bye

Jason Livingston

Give a dog LSD and sent him into a field of flowers and the effects couldn’t be more colourful than this film.

July Fix

Andreas Gogol

Telemach Wiesinger

Music and film go hand in hand here. Simple and therefore funny 16mm shots, and specially composed music.

Landed Takes & Sound Times

Paige Sarlin

Documentary about the production of the last Carousel slide projector by Eastman Kodak. Makers and users look back.

The Last Slide Projector

Kevin Henry

A grandfather tells his life story on tape and leaves it for his grandson. A fascinating story about poverty and survival in America. The grandson looks for images and shows that the land of the Western still exists.

Last Thoughts

Brigid McCaffrey

Danielle Lombardi

Charming series of portraits of five ordinary Americans whose ordinariness and travelling professions make them special. Pictures and sound go their own way. Soft 16mm images and the cosiness of local radio.

Lay Down Tracks

Part of a varied programme with (double) 16mm projections and live music. In cooperation with the musician Anthony Burr. Experimental adaptations in which for instance pharmaceutical substances were let loose on the film emulsion.

Light Work Mood Disorder

Deborah Stratman

Melancholy visit to a derelict house. The memories look valuable.

The Magician's House

Moira Tierney

Short impression from Russia, made during a tour with an experimental film programme.

Morzh

Christina Battle

‘The picture of the world that’s presented to the public has only the remotest relation to reality.’ (Noam Chomsky)

Nostalgia (April 2001 to Present)

Jenny Perlin

Animation based on drawings by Harry Gold alias Goose, sentenced in 1951 for giving nuclear secrets to the Russians.

Notes

James Benning

Two structuralist masterpieces for the price of one. 27 years ago, the filmmaker recorded changes in his birthplace Milwaukee in 60 taut shots each lasting a minute. Last year he did the same again. Together in one screening, a journey through time.

One Way Boogie Woogie / 27 years later

A sign by the motorway to Kiev causes quite a commotion. A fictional film based on a dramatic event.

The Ontological Cowboy

Dietmar Brehm

Experimental film maker rediscovers the Kuleshov effect. From a porn film, he cuts a western and vice versa.

Peng-Peng

Shannon Plumb

Small-scale silent comedy with the filmmaker herself in the leading role as a striptease artist and mother to be.

Rattles and Cherries

Ben Russell

Small handmade film with a grand cosmic story about coloured gods who touch the sun.

The Red and the Blue Gods

Looking at dirty pictures; porn films dating from those days have been changed under the skilled hands of experimental film maker Grehm into responsible yet still stimulating art.

Selektion

Short and apparent classic. The female film maker plays both the good and the bad cowboy for the final shoot out.

Shalmont Field

Rachel Urkowitz

Studio like a jungle. A piece of thread on a cluttered table turns itself into a spiral and rolls into another world.

Spirals

Poetic impression of a journey after the shadows or if necessary an echo before it disappears into the clouds.

Sunbeam Hunter

Edward Luyken

Ground in hard stone. Filmed on recalcitrant 16mm. Accompanied by uneasy music by the visual film maker himself.

Tabula Rasa

Anyone who hasn’t enjoyed lying on their back on the grass staring at clouds floating by maybe doesn’t need to see this film. For the rest of humanity, this contemplative film has a world of dramatic clouds on offer. Ten moving cloud paintings. Structuralist masterpiece.

Ten Skies

Record of an evening’s eavesdropping in a New York apartment in October 1953, four months after the execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.

Transcript

Matthew Buckingham

Out of the window of a Berlin apartment, a banner is hanging with the exclamation: Unzufrieden (dissatisfied).

Unzufrieden

Albert Sackl

A revealing self-portrait. The film painter was his own model. Made with a lot of patience and little shame.

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