Along with the Phoenix
The film is conceived as a free cinematic improvisation vaguely based on the myth of the phoenix. According to the myth, after a certain number of centuries the bird prepares a pyre for herself from twigs of fragrant trees, lights a fire and is consumed by it. The following day, in the ashes a small worm is found that is transmuted into a small bird on the next day, and on the third the bird has the form of the phoenix again. The film concentrates on the moment the fire consumes the bird. The images picture the phoenix’ point-of-view: we do not see the actual bird but watch mythological flames transforming the phoenix into its mystical ashes from which the new being is born.
Featured in these combined programmes
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Let’s Make a Film
Free films made in the labs WORM.filmwerkplaats, Space Cell and Sector 16 plus a few free radicals. -
SfS Artist in Residence
In the month before the IFFR three film makers finish off one of their projects, in WORM.filmwerkplaats. The films première during the festival.
Film details
- Countries of production
- Netherlands, Russia
- Year
- 2008
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2008
- Length
- 8'
- Medium/Format
- 16mm