Skip to content
30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025

Magnetic Movie

Semiconductor | UK | 2007 | 5' | | IFFR 2008

The secret lives of invisible magnetic fields are revealed as chaotic ever-changing geometries. Actual VLF audio recordings control the evolution of the fields as they delve into our inaudible surroundings, revealing recurrent ‘whistlers’ produced by fleeting electrons.

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.

    • Short: As Long As It Takes

  • Teaching the Alphabet

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

    • Short: As Long As It Takes

  • 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.

    • Short: As Long As It Takes

  • Shopping

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

    • Short: As Long As It Takes

  • Le devoir

    Absurd comedy about a prisoner with surprising guard.

    • Short: As Long As It Takes

  • 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

  • 5 Walks

    Shot in the last stretch of primeval Forest in Europe, this poetic work is about the myths that surround the forest.

    • Short: As Long As It Takes
View the full programme

Film details

Country of production
UK
Year
2007
Festival edition
IFFR 2008
Length
5"
Medium/Format
Betacam Digi PAL

You may also like this

  • Flat Dreams

    A small film about the inhabitants of an apartment block in Singapore. The film is divided up into three even smaller films about the very small dream

    • Short: As Long As It Takes

  • Cabinet

    A short film focusing on birth and death.

    • Short: As Long As It Takes

  • Las Vegas, New York, Blackpool

    No, not the real Robert De Niro, but the various people who have specialised as lookalike. The real De Niro is not amused.

    • Short: As Long As It Takes