REVERBERATIONS
Combined programme
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IFFR 2012
Three short films that appeal as much to our sense of imagination as to our notion of (film) history. A search for the trail of Méliès in the Texas mountains is followed by a nightly visit to a museum and a sombre monologue about Cameron’s Avatar.
In this combined programme
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Flash in the Metropolitan
Artefacts from the Near Eastern, African and Oceanic collections are filmed in the depths of darkness in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. -
Méliès (Single Screen)
Local residents explain that a mountain near Sierra Blanca has been named Movie Mountain since the early 1900s because of the brother of Georges Méliè -
Speech Act
A middle-aged man reflects on Avatar, the most expensive and highest-grossing film ever. His soliloquy however turns into a meditation on life at larg