Where Is the Black Beast
This darkly enchanting film offers an interpretation of Crow, by post-war/pre-flower power poet Ted Hughes. It is made from animating hundreds of photographs, all amateur snapshots found in flea markets and junk shops. Lee digs beneath their innocent, familiar surfaces to reveal an extremely dark view of the world and of humanity. With music by Algis Kizys (Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Glenn Branca, etc.).
Also in this combined programme
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Finding the Telepathic Cinema of Manchuria
This short essay-film offers a witty combination of found footage, animation with a hypnotising soundtrack, questioning our notion of (media) history. -
Night Mayor
The master of vintage oddities evokes the story of an immigrant who gathers the power of the aurora borealis through a device called a ‘Telemelodium’. -
Another Occupation
A stroboscopic train ride along a jungle stream. Asian military men appear with their pith-helmets, keeping the ferns, trees, monkeys, natives in line
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 2010
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2011
- Length
- 35'
- Medium/Format
- HDcam
