After her breakthrough, Italian actress Nadya Cazan disappeared. With TV and film offers flooding in, she refused to accept the competitive and superficial values of the society they represent. Ottica Zero follows Nadya on her quest to find an alternative way of living; 91-year-old social innovator and futurist Jacques Fresco proposes a solution.
Also in this combined programme
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Proposal, for an Unmade Film (Set in the Future)
Proposal weaves together the extraordinary, volcanic landscape of Lanzarote and the ‘retro-futuristic’ utopian architecture of artist César Manrique.
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Alpha
Miguel Fonseca’s first film. Highly stylised, literary in tone, it’s ultimately a disarmingly intriguing and beautifully-shot android romance.
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Kempinski
The people in Kempinski, filmed in Mali, imagine the future and speak about it in the present tense. Poetic and confusing.
Film details
- Sweden, UK
- Year
- 2007
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2009
- Length
- 13"
- Medium/Format
- DV cam PAL
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