A sultry evening in tropical Asia. A young housekeeper is busy at work in the kitchen for an elderly woman. She is filleting a frog. She swats a mosquito. It doesn’t look as if much is happening, but what does happen is meticulously observed. The maker does not want to say much about it. She refers to Wittgenstein. ‘Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.’ The maker must mean we just have to look – and who would wish to contradict her in this case?
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In Search of a City (in the Papers of Sein)
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Film details
- Country of production
- Malaysia
- Year
- 2010
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2012
- Length
- 8"
- Medium/Format
- DV cam PAL
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