Not Just a Pretty Picture
Natural beauty, not purely as an innocent backdrop, but as a source of rapture and ecstasy in which unknown paths are trodden.
In this combined programme
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Sakura
Sakura focuses on Hanami in Tokyo, revealing people’s individual responses to the cherry blossoms.
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The Garden of Earthly Delights
Handmade 16mm collage and photogram film inspired by Stan Brakhage and Hieronymous Bosch.
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The Parable of the Tulip Painter and the Fly
Baroque film miniature inspired by an old Dutch master.
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The National Parks Project: Gros Morne
In an attempt to encourage awareness of nature among Canadians, Peter Mettler was allowed to roam the Gros Morne National Park with his camera. The
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The Beautiful Garden
A poetic video work that gives the past of black-and-white photography a renewed vitality.
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Murche (persisch: Ameisen)
Dreamy, poetic fiction about childhood memories of two immigrants in Germany.
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Every Time I See Your Picture I Cry
A performance set in a community that stands at the gates of hell. Winnipeg-based artist Barrow animates his drawings in an overhead projector.
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I turn over the pictures of my voice in my head
The artist reads a text while her vocal cords are being filmed. Based on a performance on the occasion of the Venice 2007 biennial.