Housing estates have incisively characterized 20th century urban space, with urban planners often pretending they provide an ideal, safe and modern habitat. Rarely has their design been revolutionary, however. Rounding Off is an anthropological film which looks at how ‘functional’ homes have been re-appropriated by their occupants through daily use and making changes.
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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Celluloïd Composite
Cinema stretched to its limits. An interdisciplinary experience which paradoxically celebrates the end of celluloid!
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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
- Hungary
- Year
- 2007
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2010
- Length
- 24"
- Medium/Format
- DV cam
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