Esther Urlus fervently runs the WORM.filmwerkplaats in Rotterdam. She herself does not lag behind in exploring new territories in processing film material. Deep Red is an investigation into additive colour mixing (a kind of silkscreen technique) but also a successful poetic work that evokes experiences from childhood.
Also in this combined programme
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Reflect
Intimate recordings in the personal surroundings of the maker. By re-ordering individual shots, hidden meanings emerge. -
Never a Foot Too Far, Even
A piece of film of a figure on a wooded path constitutes the start of an exuberant evocation of movement and sound in layered 16mm… -
Curious Light
A manuscript illuminated: illustrations retreat into the fibre of the page; a fleeting light dissolves into the emulsion of the film. -
Caridea and Ichthyes
Caridea: shrimp. Ichtyes: fish. Underwater, even though their habitat looks like an intangible atmosphere of energy. Filmed and projected in Super-8. -
Compound Eyes
A spider, a snail, a fly. Writhing forest inhabitants crawl through the undergrowth. Filmed and projected in Super-8. -
Sea Series #10
Reflection on the Fukushima disaster made using aged film material, shot on the other side of the Pacific in glorious CinemaScope. -
99 Clerkenwell Road
Emptiness is wistfully transformed in 99 Clerkenwell Road as the remnants of an empty shop provide the makings of an abstract light-film cum toy-solar
Film details
- Country of production
- Netherlands
- Year
- 2012
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2012
- Length
- 7'
- Medium/Format
- 35mm
