A film about entering and escaping from life. The phase in which someone wakes up and is finally sucked out of it again: ‘Nothing weighs heavier than light and air – this breaking in entry – so a body starts, ends and remains deeply interred: afloat, aloft.’ (Stacy Doris)
Also in this combined programme
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Sentinela
Loving documentary about the passage from life to death according to the Brazilian Candomblé faith.
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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.
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Rauschen & Brausen I
Video animation in which an apparently endless row of immense skyscrapers shape the horizon.
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The Ivalo River Delta
Hypnotic observation of the starry sky and the Northern lights above the delta of the River Ivalo in northern Finland.
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 2007
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2008
- Length
- 16"
- Medium/Format
- DV cam NTSC
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