Beijing Double Happiness
Double Happiness, shuangxi, is a ligature of two Chinese characters (xi, ‘joy’) associated with weddings and mutual love. And the film itself was shot by two lovers over 10 days in Beijing. ranElettriKe is a Rome-based collective, mining the edge between experimental film and visual art.
Also in this combined programme
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Interieur
Film performance about/with/for The Shining and all the delights it contains – a collection of corpses – the gold rush – Timberli
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CTRL ALT ESC from Rotterdam
A meta-ficticious-docu-exploitation movie featuring Joep van Lieshout, a singing moustache and a cast of innocents getting their hands dirty. Prima
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Beep
‘The audience is invited to take part. A man dances in front of public toilets whose symmetrical architecture suits the film’s format.’ (MF)<
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sun moon stars rain
sun moon stars rain is an animated psychedelic elegy, lamenting the death of Mother Nature’s children.
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Woman of the World
Staging himself as various women of the world, Ane Lan questions images and ideas of gender, ethnicity and multiculturalism.
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Etrange étranger
Where are you from? I am nobody and everyone, I belong to nowhere and everywhere is home.
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Birmingham Ornament (Fragments 37, 38, 43, 44)
A film that strives to turn ethnicities, politics, races and nations into non-existent objects like ovals, boxes, blobs and wardrobes!
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Film details
- Country of production
- Italy
- Year
- 2010
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2011
- Length
- 13"
- Medium/Format
- Mini DV PAL
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