…These Blazeing Starrs!
...These Blazeing Starrs!
…These Blazeing Starrs juxtaposes an empirical desire to probe and measure with older methods, when stargazers interpreted the sky more intuitively. Comets, once regarded as messengers bearing tidings of human folly, are now seen as time capsules harbouring elemental information about our solar system.
Also in this combined programme
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Rien d’extraordinaire
Intimate, poetic film diary in Rose Lowder’s signature style. She ran the film through the camera multiple times whilst recording a mountain village. -
Tokyo – Ebisu
Double bill with Shibuya – Tokyo& uses an ingenious patchwork of thirty different shots to create a dynamic impression of the busiest metro line i -
Shrimp Boat Log
Mathematical concept by Leonardo da Vinci, translated by filmmaker Gatten into a beautiful conceptual film consisting of 300 shots, 29 frames long. -
Variationen
Super-8 blow-ups by a dedicated filmmaker who manages to capture moments that otherwise too readily escape. A catalogue of apparent insignificance. -
Shibuya – Tokyo
Double bill with Tokyo – Ebisu is an ingenious patchwork of thirty different shots showing station exits along Tokyo’s busiest metro line. -
Jardin du soleil
Poetic 16mm precision. Footage of nature and sunlight intermingled by repeatedly running the film through the camera. -
Inter View
Makino Takashi’s condensing films work like escapist drugs. Inter View is relatively minimal and marks the start of his blue period.
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 2011
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2011
- Length
- 14'
- Medium/Format
- 16mm
