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Genius Loci

Genius Loci

Combined programme | IFFR 2008

15 international distributors of experimental films and videos give you a guided tour of their home base. With their choice of films, they want to communicate the feeling of their city. They take you to the fringes of their civilisation to inspire the viewer with the individuality of their country. How fertile is the soil on which these often fragile films have to grow?

In this combined programme

Film annonce
Short: As Long As It Takes
A trailer with the work of film maker Maurice Lemaître.
Déperdition lointaine
Short: As Long As It Takes
A film maker is urgently looking for contact with nature .
Jean Genet in Chicago
Short: As Long As It Takes
The events surrounding the Democratic convention in Chicago in 1968 seen through the eyes of the French writer and thinker Jean Genet.
Saeftinge
Short: As Long As It Takes
A short poetic animation, inspired by the story of the drowned land of Saeftinghe.
Butte
Short: As Long As It Takes
And unusual dance film in which the dancer/choreographer allows himself to be inspired by the wild landscape of his home.
Artist Statement
Short: As Long As It Takes
A very personal animation.
Isolating Landscapes
Short: As Long As It Takes
A short landscape film that breathes loneliness and alienation.
Oh Great Now Look What Happened
Short: As Long As It Takes
A mysterious creature appears from nowhere in the Dutch fields.
Selling of New York
Short: As Long As It Takes
By now a classic video work by Nam June Paik.
Made in Belgium
Short: As Long As It Takes
The quest for a national identity in Belgium, Wisconsin.
Eut-elle été criminelle…
Short: As Long As It Takes
France, summer 1944. A public humiliation of women who are accused of having had affairs with the enemy.
Haunt 1-3
Short: As Long As It Takes
Three short video works about the background to the yuppiefication of Berlin .
48/95 Tausendjahrekino
Short: As Long As It Takes
Kurt Kren’s contribution to celebrating the 100th anniversary of cinema.
Caravan Rally
Short: As Long As It Takes
A contest with caravans.
Perfect Day
Short: As Long As It Takes
The artist films himself, drowning in the intoxication of the moment.