This Is Not Dying is based on filmed studies of daily life around Nova Paul’s marae (tribal meeting place). Utilising three-colour separation in the printing of the film, she produces prismatic, multi-layered images where perceived reality takes a strange shift into a more unfamiliar realm.
Also in this combined programme
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Rayning
How pure light can break through black-and-white emulsion and reach the retina. ‘Light rayns-rains-reigns across a dream of tranquility.̵
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Shutter
Shutter tracks the rising sun, the lengthening shadows and the darkening day of a total solar eclipse.
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Ouverture
Camera improvisation in Cinemascope transforms the meagre light in an old Normandy shed into an abstract kinetic light show.
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Cry When It Happens
Melancholy L.A. How a landscape is coloured by intense desire. You want to hang onto it for as long as possible, but it slips away.
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Garden
Patterns of grasses, trees and flowers meld, accompanied by the rousing music of Japanese experimental jazz band the Samurai Jazz Quintet.
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Ville Marie
The point of view of a person falling from the top of a high-rise building. Shot on Super-8 and beautifully mastered with optical printing techniqu
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In the Absence of Light, Darkness Prevails
Eclectic hotpot shot in an overheated Brazil. People are oppressed, baby turtles swim out to sea and our culture decays.
Film details
- Country of production
- New Zealand
- Year
- 2010
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2011
- Length
- 20"
- Medium/Format
- 16mm
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