An electro-mechanical, sound and visual performance mixing loops, edited and re-edited segments of film, scratched and burned or color-saturated celluloid. Multi-projection is carried out by means of old Swiss Movie Vox 16mm projectors, whilst sounds are manipulated and distorted to be part of this interdisciplinary experience – which paradoxically celebrates the end of celluloid! This is cinema stretched to its limits.
Also in this combined programme
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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.
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Birmingham Ornament
As with the Russian avant-garde of the twenties, this Russian ‘parallel cinema’ short film deals with symbols and metaphors.
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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, w
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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.
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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
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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 c
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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 elect
Film details
- Country of production
- Switzerland
- Year
- 2010
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2010
- Length
- 30"
- Medium/Format
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