‘The Mojave dessert. Endless rows of semi-circular mirrors slowly revolve, reflecting their surroundings. A man’s voice is heard, his tone that of a particular kind of American cinema; introspective and mythic, meandering and omniscient. But his words are not a generic narrative. Rather, they are a composite of stories told by local people projecting imagined truths onto the strange machines.’ (RB)
Also in this combined programme
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Quiero Ver
On the 13th of each month, hundreds of people gather at a site in the Mojave Desert to see visions of the Virgin Mary appear in the sun.
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Dawn
A face and a streetlamp in the background, flashing on and off. We produce the motion in between the frames ourselves.
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Affection exonérante
A heliocentric, obsessive mediation about our natural source of light. Shot with a cell phone.
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12 Explosionen
Twelve times Johann Lurf sets off firework in the nocturnal streets: cheerful images without words.
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1859
A meditation on light, filtered through a Fresnel lense, which can ignite objects on contact. ‘LSD is illegal, 1859 is not.’
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SHU
Shot in 2004, SHU shows an isolated high-security prison in the Californian Mojave Desert at the time of the Blue Hour.
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Easter Morning
A hypnotic blur of colour and multiple exposures. The last completed film of the legendary Conner, with music by Terry Riley.
Film details
- Countries of production
- Netherlands, USA
- Year
- 2007
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2009
- Length
- 4"
- Medium/Format
- 35mm
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