A searing abstraction with a hot palette updates a classic scene in reference to today’s skewed social hierarchy. The apocalyptic sublime of J.M.W. Turner’s 1840 masterpiece The Slave Ship is the source for T. Marie’s time-based pixel painting-film Slave Ship.
Also in this combined programme
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The Future’s Getting Old Like the Rest of Us
A rewardably complex, part documentary, part fiction film which takes B.S. Johnson’s unorthodox novel House Mother Normal as its formal departure poin -
A Walk with Nigel
Louis Henderson visits the artistic afterlife, travelling to the East End London of his great-uncle and photographer, Nigel Henderson (1917-1985).
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 2010
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2011
- Length
- 6'
- Medium/Format
- HDcam
