This film considers the subject of HIV and AIDS from a variety of different viewpoints. On the one hand using textual material in both English and French which appears on screen at different speeds and rhythms, and on the other, articulated by the appearance of human voice on the sound track. It is a story of a person confronted with a civilization which promotes death as a way of life.
Also in this combined programme
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Word Movie (Fluxfilm #29)
Fifty words visually ‘repeated’ in varying sequential and positional relationships, each frame being a different word or word fragment. -
Cuidado’ Light
Brazilian artist Barrus questions the fascination so many film makers have with ‘the image’. This work is a fake, a response to the films Flicker… -
Holon
For Holon, Lebrat used a ‘moving frame’ of his own fabrication: a perforated strip of black paper which he moved in front of the camera.. -
Film in Which There Appear Edge Lettering, Sprocket Holes, Dirt Particles, Etc.
This film takes the view that certain defining characteristics of the medium, such as those mentioned in the title, are worthy subjects in their own… -
Xenogenesis
Scratch lines, which are normally rejected as noise, begin to conflict with an image of a man walking who is present there. -
Rate of Change
This film has no literal subject, no frames, only slow continuously shifting colours, transgressing the perimeter of the spectrum.
Film details
- Country of production
- France
- Year
- 1997
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2008
- Length
- 13'
- Medium/Format
- Betacam SP
