Comical short film by IFFR regular Moullet on the loss of human interaction in transactions and the rise of terminals and machines in the modern era. A drily humourous statement on efficiency and society’s increasingly business-like nature. Screened before A Useful Life.
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The Earrings
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Varfix
Cartoon bombs explode in an abstract animation. The images were selected for their contrast to the music. Witty visual art. Screened before Hot as Hel -
Maya
Every man needs a hobby: a dog and its owner prepare for a dog fight. Beautifully shot, simultaneously tender and gruesome. Screened before The Lord’s -
Les voisins
There’s nothing more annoying than the sound of a lawn mower. It’s worse than a thousand insects buzzing around you. In a village, everyone’s mowing. -
Drexciya
Guilty landscape. A carefully observed decrepit swimming pool, silently relates a myth from Africa’s traumatic history. Screened before Imagine, the S
Film details
- Country of production
- France
- Year
- 2010
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2011
- Length
- 14'
- Medium/Format
- Betacam Digi
