Birmingham Ornament
This is the latest Russian short film proving that the ‘parallel cinema’ movement in Russia still exists. Parallel cinema, or the ‘new avant-garde’ aims to offer an alternative to Mosfilm and Lenfilm productions. Like the Russian avant-garde of the twenties, Birmingham Ornament deals with symbols and metaphors.
Also in this combined programme
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Rounding Off
An anthropological film which looks at how the occupants of ‘functional’ homes have re-appropriated them through daily use and making changes. -
Celluloïd Composite
Cinema stretched to its limits. An interdisciplinary experience which paradoxically celebrates the end of celluloid! -
Appunti sul lavoro a Napoli
Excerpt from a longer mixed-media film on working conditions in the region of Naples. An unconventional project for an uneasy subject. -
Cipher Screen
3-screen live art performance piece which harnesses the mechanisms of film and cinema, both random and controlled. With sound artist Mike Cooper, who -
Nice Movie
A personal reinterpretation of the holiday movie genre and an ironic and pungent critique of how exotic imagery is being conditioned more and more by -
251-249 = 2
Villages on the Stara Planina Mountain used to be full of life. Now, except for two people who are still living there, only silence remains. -
Rivières
We are in Marseille, the sun is rising and life seems to flow peacefully. Passers-by participate in the film, noises resound all around. With electro-
Film details
- Country of production
- Russia
- Year
- 2009
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2010
- Length
- 10'
- Medium/Format
- DV cam
