What we see is a static shot from an apartment block. We gradually find out that it’s an apartment block in Kuala Lumpur with only Indian inhabitants. Then the picture starts to wake up; as in a moving painting, all kinds of minor stories surrounding the immigrant inhabitants start to develop at various levels on screen, but also on the meticulously constructed and often contrary soundtrack. For one day and one night we are witnesses to events on the galleries. Block B is the result of a close cooperation between film maker Chris Chong Chan Fui and the Japanese sound artist Yasuhiro Morinaga
Also in this combined programme
-
La vie lointaine
Amiable, slightly surrealistic fiction reminiscent of the work of the popular Japanese author Haruki Murakami. Young man meets the ghost of a write
Film details
- Countries of production
- Canada, Malaysia
- Year
- 2008
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2009
- Length
- 20"
- Medium/Format
- 35mm
You may also like this
-
Man and Gravity
A man with a colourful tricycle tries to raise an impossible freight in inaccessible surroundings. Gravity, but also karma.
-
Despair
The individual seems to go under desperately in a lost battle with almighty nature. Only assimilation still seems to offer salvation. A dark choreo
-
Red-light District Graffiti
An enclave of sanctuary-seeking prostitutes insure us a cathartically theatrical trip through many joyous hues of insanity, performance and poetry.