‘I saw all those luxury yachts in a French port close to the Côte d’Azur; that’s when the film found a direction.’ Nice Movie is a personal reinterpretation of the holiday movie genre. Underneath its glossy appearance, the film is an ironic and pungent critique of how exotic imagery is increasingly being conditioned by voyeurism.
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 -
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- -
Birmingham Ornament
As with the Russian avant-garde of the twenties, this Russian ‘parallel cinema’ short film deals with symbols and metaphors.
Film details
- Country of production
- Germany
- Year
- 2008
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2010
- Length
- 17'
- Medium/Format
- Betacam SP PAL
