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5 Walks

Anna Abrahams | Netherlands | 2008 | 15' | | IFFR 2008

Secretive, splendid, idyllic – that’s not what a wood is itself. We fill it with significance using images and stories about hunters and their prey and encounters with mythical beings. Culture annexes nature by giving it a soul. The first part of a film series about the cultural significance of disappearing European landscapes.

Also in this combined programme

  • On the Sunny Side of the Alps

    Hilarious commentary on a recent rise in racism in Slovenia. Two families live in harmony opposite each other until one gets a new car.

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  • Teaching the Alphabet

    It’s not a simple ABC, this found footage alphabet by Volker Schreiner.

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  • Energie!

    Despite the fact that it’s an experimental film, it tells a universal story that is older than humanity. Sheer beautiful electrons on film.

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  • Shopping

    Minute yet also lyrical reconstruction of the life of calf number 4208.

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  • Le devoir

    Absurd comedy about a prisoner with surprising guard.

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  • 33 1/3 rpm

    100 ft rolls, films like songs, marches, eulogies.

    • Short: As Long As It Takes

  • Nook & Cranny

    A film like a large green carpet.

    • Short: Starting from Scratch

  • Las cinco de la tarde

    A young torero in his hotel room prepares for his fight.

    • Short: As Long As It Takes

  • Red Stallions Revenge

    Renwick remixes and rescores a 1943 western featuring the grudge match of the century between a horse and a bear.

    • Short: As Long As It Takes

  • Unlith

    Ominous, surrealist work with phenomenal digital effects about cold surroundings where men with dogs meet each other.

    • Short: As Long As It Takes

  • Batbox/Beatbox

    A poetic link between bats, street poets and street dancers in New York.

    • Short: As Long As It Takes

  • De tijd

    De tijd is an abstract computer-generated film in which colour plays the leading role.

    • Short: As Long As It Takes

  • Steifheit I + II

    A Caravaggio-esque lit coming-of-age experiment with the organ of the director.

    • Short: As Long As It Takes

  • Dear Bill Gates

    A poetic visual essay about the issue of the ownership of digital image rights.

    • Short: As Long As It Takes

  • Où se trouve le chef de la prison?

    The notes from 1949 of a psychiatric patient form the basis for the morning ritual of a young man.

    • Short: As Long As It Takes

  • Forest Murmurs

    An animated exploration of the sinister past of Epping Forest near London sparks off a journey into the dark side of the artist’s mind.

    • Short: As Long As It Takes

  • Binnenverblijven

    Indoor houses for apes and anthropoids.

    • Short: As Long As It Takes

  • Heureux qui comme Edouard

    Flawless, catchy mini-musical about a large French company and the laws of the marketplace.

    • Short: As Long As It Takes

  • Destiny Manifesto

    A collage animation in which Martha Colburn draws a parallel in a playful yet acute way between the Wild West and the war in Iraq.

    • Short: As Long As It Takes

  • Invisibilities

    While people sleep their habitat is taken over by creatures of the night, existing on the edges of human perception.

    • Short: As Long As It Takes

  • Discoveries on the Forest Floor 1-3

    Three miniature, illuminated, heliographic studies of plants, observed and imagined.

    • Short: Starting from Scratch

  • Sarah Ann

    Who is Sarah Ann and how did she become a legend? This film provides the answer.

    • Short: As Long As It Takes

  • Summer Camp

    The reconstruction of destroyed houses in a joint project between Israelis and Palestinians.

    • Short: As Long As It Takes

  • Suspension

    I spy with my little eye…

    • Short: As Long As It Takes

  • Résistance aux tremblements

    Moving fiction about the power and importance of memory with the most beautiful elderly French actress, Esther Gorintin.

    • Short: As Long As It Takes

  • Wasting Away

    Idealist and very effective fiction about our consumer society gone mad.

    • Short: As Long As It Takes

  • Nummer acht (Everything Is Going to Be Alright)

    There was only 10 metres between the director/actor and the icebreaker he walked in front of. An image of pure beauty.

    • Short: As Long As It Takes

  • Observando el cielo

    Seven years of celestial field recordings gathered from the chaos of the cosmos.

    • Short: As Long As It Takes

  • Taua

    When a boy shows compassion amidst rival Maori tribes at war, one leader falls, another rises.

    • Short: As Long As It Takes

  • Historias del viento

    Sober, atmospheric drama about growing up in the countryside of Venezuela. Without dialogue but with an important role for the sounds of nature.

    • Short: As Long As It Takes

  • Son

    Surrealist, frightening and virtuoso lit sketch of a mother and son on a film set.

    • Short: As Long As It Takes

  • Pinocchio

    The famous appendage of Pinocchio has a hard time.

    • Short: As Long As It Takes

  • Loud_Things

    Audiovisual travelogue of an expedition to the inside of the computer.

    • Short: As Long As It Takes

  • Moments of Considered Time

    Photographed games on the banks of the Nile in Cairo inspired this controlled docu-fiction about love in public.

    • Short: As Long As It Takes

  • Smells Like Teen Spirit

    At the request of Patti Smith, Jem Cohen made a short film for the release of her version of Smells Like Teen Spirit. Not a music video, but a short f

    • Short: As Long As It Takes

  • Magnetic Movie

    Beautifully visualised magnetic fields in challenging laboratory setup.

    • Short: As Long As It Takes
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Film details

Country of production
Netherlands
Year
2008
Festival edition
IFFR 2008
Length
15"
Medium/Format
35mm

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