A work of genuine hypnosis. Ken Jacobs tears open a scene from the film The Barbarian (1933). Like so many of his found-footage experiments, it is a movie about the shadows people leave behind – here, quite literally.
Also in this combined programme
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Manifest Destiny
A road-movie-scifi-documentary about a journey through an imaginary cosmos. Or just a dream? -
Forest
A microscopic landscape made of animated photo and videocollages. Inspired by scientific documentaries in the spirit of Jean Painlevé. -
On the Logic of Dubious Historical Accounts, 1969-1972
This film recreates the historical anecdote of Hasselblad cameras falling through space and hitting the surface of the moon. -
Horizontal Boundaries
This shape-shifting portrait of Los Angeles is a complex and disorientating tapestry of sliding horizon lines and shifting tectonics.
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 2008
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2009
- Length
- 25'
- Medium/Format
- Betacam Digi PAL
