Based on a myth about an undersea continent as told in music by the Detroit band Drexciya. The primarily visual images are related to an experimental film tradition of observation. The result is an intense look at a piece of Africa with a visible colonial past. Screened before Imagine, the Sky.
Also in this combined programme
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Tiong Bahru
Lyrical and musical in its style, Tiong Bahru (Civic Life series) delves into ideas of identity, community and heritage within the Singaporean civic s -
Toujours moins
Typical Luc Moullet: dryly comedic narrative about our cold society, in which room for inter-human relations continually decreases. Screened before A -
The Earrings
A poetical film from southern Kyrgyzstan where two mothers let their son and daughter meet for the first time, with thoughts of marriage. Screened bef -
Varfix
Cartoon bombs explode in an abstract animation. The images were selected for their contrast to the music. Witty visual art. Screened before Hot as Hel -
Maya
Every man needs a hobby: a dog and its owner prepare for a dog fight. Beautifully shot, simultaneously tender and gruesome. Screened before The Lord’s -
Les voisins
There’s nothing more annoying than the sound of a lawn mower. It’s worse than a thousand insects buzzing around you. In a village, everyone’s mowing.
Film details
- Countries of production
- Ghana, USA
- Year
- 2011
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2011
- Length
- 12'
- Medium/Format
- DV cam NTSC
