Located at a busy airport terminal, the viewer is exposed to various fields of vision that alternate the images shot from above and below, restricting but also expanding the perspective. The images are only partly recognisable and so they provide us with insufficient context to detect a possible equilibrium.
Also in this combined programme
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Sa, 29. Juni/Arctic Circle
Two couples travel from Vienna to the North Cape and back. On 29th June, passing the polar circle, they stop in front of a sign saying ‘Arcti
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The Boat
A metaphorical journey through the streets of Amsterdam in search of a lost paradise and the hope for freedom.
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Three Poems By Spoon Jackson #1
An emotional journey through the traumatic past of Spoon Jackson, an actor, poet and writer, sometime philosopher, imprisoned since 1977.
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Après le feu
A train is heading to the vanishing skyline; in perpetual colour metamorphosis, the landscape never ceases to stay still.
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Travelogue
Visually deconstructing the idea of a travelogue, this film is an ode to the city, as derived from a wide range of travel writings about London.
Los orígenes del marketing
Self-reflective road movie diary, blending social commentary and pop music. Intersects cinema, travelling, politics and ‘the origins of marke
The Cave
Canadian First Nations tale that combines authentic traditions of oral storytelling but takes on fictional dimensions.
Route 666
Surreal and satirical yet poetic, Route 666 is part of George Kuchar’s series Weather Diary.
München-Berlin Wanderung
Fischinger’s three-and-a-half-week long trip on foot from Munich to Berlin captured on a 35mm camera in 1927.
La voûte
Under the bridge: an endless play of light, pulsating, reversing and returning. A video like a palindrome.
O quam tristis
A mother and daughter wrestle on a beach – an analogy for their real life conflicts and a manifestation of a perpetual generational gap.
Film ist mehr als Film
A short meditation on film, and what cinema stands for. Uses a series of two second clips, comprising quotes and terms derived from movie soundtrac
Japan Tapes
A selection of excerpts from Asher’s Japan Tapes – a poetic diary that chronicles his encounters with modern Japanese life.
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 2011
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2011
- Length
- 8"
- Medium/Format
- HDcam
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