Scratch conveys the film maker’s physical insertion into nature, only this time the experience is not sensual release, rather it is a sadomasochistic and painful journey. The film maker’s body is treated like a piece of emulsion: processed, manipulated, scratched, cut to fit.
Also in this combined programme
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We Are Going Home
A gorgeous surrealistic film that has all of the characteristics of the trance film, structured around a dream sequence that has no real beginning or -
Fall
The film maker falls over and over again to become one, in a humorous and bruised way, with the land. -
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Phil’s Film Farm Film
A poetic document of the 2002 edition of Film Farm in which the film makers and the setting are laminated in gorgeous black & white… -
Opening Series 3
Opening Series 3 explores the relationships surrounding language, image and sound, set to the backdrop of a gravel-pit. -
The Shape of the Gaze
A sort of short manifesto of radical queer film making with variations in colour and film surface. -
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Behind This Soft Eclipse
Behind This Soft Eclipse is a film poem of the utmost subtlety and finesse, in which images emerge from black only to vanish again. -
Towards Everyday Lightning
A flashing ambiance, embodying rhythm, tone chiaroscuro and contrast, plays on ‘enlightenment’ as an elusive but ubiquitous possibility. -
Film details
- Country of production
- Canada
- Year
- 1998
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2008
- Length
- 3'
- Medium/Format
- 16mm
