The car of two Mennonite nuns breaks down somewhere in southern USA. They find shelter in a fairly creepy motel and call their parents. But where did they leave grandma? Alienating, stylish fiction produced by Harmony Korine. His wife Rachel plays one of the nuns.
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The Foxhole Manifesto
Bad-ass, joyful romp of an animation on bumper stickers and a God who eats crisps, plus a runaway performance from poet Jeffrey McDaniel. A small j
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Corredores de verano
Original short film without words about three adolescents who roam the streets at night and hang around together. How far does the friendship go?
Top Girl
Truthful, tender and punctuated by ill advised sexual encounters, Top Girl’s all about coming of age.
The Presentation Theme
Delightfully bizarre animation in which a snake with the head of a mammal reviews various body parts and naked men.
Gewichtig wachten
Puzzling quest for the ‘weight’ of the moment and the physical state of decision-making.
False Aging
Miming the processes of memory, Klahr pulls together ‘the discards of contemporary life into scenarios that seem like Hollywood films dimly r
Six Apartments
Six Apartments is a poetic document of decline and deterioration (both physical and ideal), hypnotic and melancholic.
Bernadette
A masterful ‘experimental’ documentary and disarmingly alluring representation of Bernadette Devlin, one of the key figures in Northern
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
Realms Pin
Flash animated objects as witnesses and players in parallel universes, impacted and agitated by their unexpected roles. Buerkner spectacularly allo
Brises
Ramirez grew up under the dictatorship in Chile, in his mother’s arms. She told him that, paradoxically, it was the happiest period of her life.
One
Original refreshing fiction in split-screen about morning rituals, grind and relationships within which the viewer is repeatedly wrongfooted.
The Black Dog’s Progress
An urban nightmare, urgently told and delicately aided by the visceral music of Danish composer Sorenious Bonk.
Ghosts and Gravel Roads
With gorgeous cinematography, Ghosts and Gravel Roads plays out like a horror movie without any ghosts, monsters, or even people, really.
Dreznica
A short documentary film compiled from amateur Super-8 footage from the 1970s. A lyric journey through the images and sensations revealed by the me
Man and Gravity
A man with a colourful tricycle tries to raise an impossible freight in inaccessible surroundings. Gravity, but also karma.
A Necessary Music
Derived from texts by residents of Roosevelt Island, and Bioy Casares, A Necessary Music is a musically conceived science fiction film featuring Ro
Fall
Furniture smashes in an empty car park. Little houses sink and burn. Events of small destruction. Pathetic and momentarily cathartic.
Magnetic Sleep (Episode #1)
The sensual portrayal of the desire of a female hypnotist in the 19th century.
Origin of the Species
Existentialist portrait by former Tiger Short winner of a man who lives with his obsession for Darwin in self-imposed isolation.
Horizontal Boundaries
This shape-shifting portrait of Los Angeles is a complex and disorientating tapestry of sliding horizon lines and shifting tectonics.
The Parable of the Tulip Painter and the Fly
Baroque film miniature inspired by an old Dutch master.
Cobra Mist
Richardson casts a spell in this contemplative zone of the unknown. ‘This is land-escape-art. Existential, visceral and elemental.’ (An
Bagh Dad Bar Ber
Dark, worrying short about a barber in Baghdad who has to earn his visa to the United States in a gruesome way.
Y’a plus d’os
The spiral of violence in this baroque sketch from the gypsy milieu inevitably leads to the most confrontational final shot of this festival.
Film details
- Countries of production
- France, USA
- Year
- 2008
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2009
- Length
- 11"
- Medium/Format
- HDcam
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