When Francois Truffaut remarked that every director is condemned to remake their first film again and again, he might have been naming the project of Frank Cole. In Frank’s first short film, made at Algonquin College, he brings a terrifying mixture of intimacy and distance to bear on his aging grandparents.
Also in this combined programme
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The Mountenays
A short black-and-white marvel of direct cinema about the Mountenay family, who live in a stretch of abandoned forest in the Ottawa Valley. -
The Man Who Crossed the Sahara
A deliberate, sobering and compelling film about the life of film maker Frank Cole who crossed the Sahara alone and was murdered by bandits in…
Film details
- Country of production
- Canada
- Year
- 1979
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2010
- Length
- 8'
- Medium/Format
- 16mm
