Empire of the Sun
Combined programme
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IFFR 2013
A post-cinema work/installation combined with an essay on visual technologies from the pre-cinema era. A contemporary study of the passage of time on earth followed by a historic documentation of the orbit of the planet Venus.
In this combined programme
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Empire
Solomon needed only machinima images from the Grand Theft Auto series for his radical and relatively concise remake of Warhol’s classic eight-hour-lon -
Black Drop
Starting with the photographic revolver in 1874, the film reveals the relationship between astronomy, photography and the beginnings of moving image t