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After School Special

Corin Sworn | Canada, United Kingdom | 2009 | 20' | | IFFR 2010

Examines depictions of ‘ineffectual youth’ as a critique of the promoted potential of the towns they live in. And pits various modes of discourse against one another to study the state of being inarticulate as a cacophony of various modes of speech. Dreamlike, droll and vigorously contemplative.

Also in this combined programme

  • Fair Trade

    Cool animation with great soundtrack about a young woman who tries to shake off her past.

  • Visionary Iraq

    Inventive artists going where angels fear to tread – the Iraq war, face-painted incest – could things get any more wrong?

  • OOIOO SOL

    Whizzing, dazzling motion graphics and the very wonderful sound of OOIOO.

  • The Three Ravens

    Inspired by a folk ballad in which a trio of ravens considers feasting on a corpse. Featuring enough happy/sad melodrama to put the whole town’s…

  • Quadrangle

    An unconventional documentary about two ‘conventional’ couples that swapped partners and lived in a group marriage in the early 1970s.
View the entire programme

Film details

Countries of production
Canada, United Kingdom
Year
2009
Festival edition
IFFR 2010
Length
20'
Medium/Format
DV cam NTSC