The Severe Illness of Men
A highly metaphorical film collage which denounces the oppression of ideology. A man, partly bandaged, wanders through an industrial landscape; his wandering interwoven with excerpts from science films and the movie Chapaev (1934).
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Shot Film
A shotgun is aimed at filmstrips. Images and sound are created through the destructive force and spread of the shot. Images as wounds: entry and exit
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Cricketant – Nordur
Excerpt from a video currently being made. The drone ambient music is by the Serbian band The Cricketant.
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Ateliers urbains
Fragments selected from a video shot around Flagey Square, an area whose recent renovation has resuscitated many polemics.
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NKS Feed-Back
This is the simplest and at the same time most complex performance one might think of. Pascal Baes, Ai Suzuki and real visual poetry.
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An Encounter
In 2009 in Croatia, students joined farmers in a demonstration for the first time. Although major media were present, this is the only video which doc
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Happiness the Movie
Why do we have to be happy? Happiness the Movie takes us through the secrets of psycho programming and human behaviour management.
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La scène du WC
Excerpt from a documentary on urban speculation in Brussels. We see labourers knocking down a house, but someone is still living behind that wall!
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Incidence Room
Single frame bursts of material divided into four themes: city, window, mountains and people. A visual punctuation of time coordinated with a soundsca
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Shadow Trap
Shards of emulsion layered and structured onto clear 35mm film. A film created by the application of film emulsion ‘dust’ to a clear base.
Film details
- Country of production
- USSR
- Year
- 1987
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2010
- Length
- 10"
- Medium/Format
- Mini DV PAL
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