The inhospitable region where these images were shot – the endless salt flats of Kutch at the westernmost tip of India – is literally transformed into a new, hardly identifiable landscape with the aid of an HD camera and self-developed 16mm footage.
Also in this combined programme
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Mr. Sakurai at a Ticket Counter
Experimental mini road movie shot on 8mm. A film that regularly stops for camera exercises in which architectural objects are ‘scanned’
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Restauratiewagens
Empty interiors of dining cars, shot on Super-8, rock through the landscape, like a rolling time capsule.
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Chorus
Three cities by night become one in this layered Super-8 evocation by prolific film maker Paul Clipson. Music by Gregg Kowalsky.
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Reflection
Moving sunlight on a white gallery wall is fixed in paint. Gradually, a complex and colourful wall painting emerges.
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Trace(s)
In the wake of Noah’s Ark, we travel from Istanbul to Mount Ararat. The animals are our guide.
Film details
- Countries of production
- India, USA
- Year
- 2009
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2010
- Length
- 5"
- Medium/Format
- HDcam
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