The Shape of the Gaze
The Shape of the Gaze is a sort of manifesto of radical queer film making in which Carpenter implicates the viewer in the exchange of looks between the film maker and her ‘butch’ subjects, disrupting the usual film maker-subject-viewer triad through interventions in colour and film surface.
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
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Towards Everyday Lightning
A flashing ambiance, embodying rhythm, tone chiaroscuro and contrast, plays on ‘enlightenment’ as an elusive but ubiquitous possibility.
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Opening Series 3
Opening Series 3 explores the relationships surrounding language, image and sound, set to the backdrop of a gravel-pit.
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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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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.
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Scratch
Scratch conveys the film maker’s physical insertion into nature, only this time the experience is not sensual release, rather it is a sadomasochistic
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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 in-camera multiple
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 2000
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2008
- Length
- 7"
- Medium/Format
- 35mm
