Everson appeals to the filmic notion of the traditional cowboy, yet here all the performers are black. With a sense of place and history, Everson investigates the gestures or tasks caused by certain conditions in the lives of working-class African Americans and other people of African descent.
Trilogy consisting of The Mayberry Practice Calf, Second Place and The Wooden Calf.
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Day and Night
A hypnotising exploration of polarities: stillness and motion, 2D and 3D, positive and negative, colour and black-and-white, day and night. -
The Green Wave
Consciousness reflects on the subconscious, the latter often represented by an ocean. Jacobs plays with our perception of a tidal pool, in a maelstrom -
Night Hunter
This eerie, allegorical homage to silent film star Lillian Gish is composed of approximately 4,000 handmade collages. -
Village, Silenced
Focus in this short remake is on how sound is used as a means of social control, and the larger historical implications of repetition. -
Conference (Notes on Film 05)
The face of fascism? This grotesque found-footage film combines close-ups of 65 actors playing Adolf Hitler in films made between 1940 and today. -
Goose Weather
A visual oddity: a George Harrison album cover is explored as a visual counterpoint to a choral rendition of the text English Eccentrics. -
Intermezzo (Notes on Film 04)
A director’s fascination for Chaplin’s acting style, takes on the look of an explosive pop promo here. -
Maurice
Maurice, the semi-sophisticated owner of a porn cinema in Paris, sheds his skin and becomes a die-hard cinephile, who must take leave of his doomed…
Film details
- Productieland
- USA
- Jaar
- 2012
- Festivaleditie
- IFFR 2012
- Lengte
- 9'
- Medium/Formaat
- DV cam NTSC
