Méliès (Single Screen)
Besides being an unsuccesful businessman, the mysterious Gaston Méliès was also a filmmaker with anthropological interests. Méliès (2011) and Grand Paris Texas (2009) are the first two installations in Hubbard/Birchler’s trilogy exploring the social and physical locations of cinema.
Also 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. -
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
Film details
- Countries of production
- Germany, Switzerland, USA
- Year
- 2012
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2012
- Length
- 24'
- Medium/Format
- HDcam