Beydler’s magical Hand Held Day is his most unabashedly beautiful film, but it’s no less complex than his other works. The filming approach is simple, yet incredibly rich with possibilities, as Beydler collapses the time and space of a full day in the Arizona desert via time-lapse photography and a carefully hand-held mirror reflecting the view behind his camera. (Mark Toscano)
Also in this combined programme
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Documentary Footage
Morgan Fisher’s rarely seen early masterwork, in which an artist’s model gives an endlessly nuanced performance of self-investigation. -
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Pat O’Neill’s celebrated mind bomb, the L.A. film that launched a thousand other films. Contact printing, hand processing, and solarisation mix in a b -
By the Sea
Pat O’Neill’s first film (made with Robert Abel) is an observation and transformation of the fascinating forms to be found at Muscle Beach in 1963. -
Olivia’s Place
In 1966, Thom Andersen knew that Olivia’s Place would soon be gone, so he decided to make a film in order to save something of… -
Future Perfect
A camera follows a map through a defined space, while markings representing the camera’s movements appear on the film strip itself with increasing fre -
Dead Reckoning
A hand-held shot of a cross in the desert is reframed via optical printing, translating its pictorial movements to explicitly cinematic ones in a subt -
Mirror People
Kathy Rose’s absurdist animation features numerous grotesque characters noisily inhabiting an uncertain and uneasy environment. -
Venusville
The two filmmakers had a bet: how easily can you tell the difference between a moving image of a still object, and a freeze frame…
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 1975
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2011
- Length
- 6'
- Medium/Format
- 16mm
