Ville Marie was created by throwing Super-8 cameras off high-rise buildings and then optically printing the footage and blowing it up into abstraction. It was inspired by a recurrent dream during which I experienced an endless free fall from the roof of a skyscraper, facing upwards. (AL)
Also in this combined programme
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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. -
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. -
Rayning
How pure light can break through black-and-white emulsion and reach the retina. ‘Light rayns-rains-reigns across a dream of tranquility.’ -
Shutter
Shutter tracks the rising sun, the lengthening shadows and the darkening day of a total solar eclipse. -
This Is Not Dying
Colour separation and Ben Tawhiti’s whistling, humming and pedal steel allow Nova Paul’s marae to defy rules of time and space. -
Garden
Patterns of grasses, trees and flowers meld, accompanied by the rousing music of Japanese experimental jazz band the Samurai Jazz Quintet. -
Ouverture
Camera improvisation in Cinemascope transforms the meagre light in an old Normandy shed into an abstract kinetic light show.
Film details
- Country of production
- Canada
- Year
- 2010
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2011
- Length
- 12'
- Medium/Format
- 35mm
