Looking Glass Self
Combined programme
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IFFR 2013
Unexpected consequences of me looking at you, you looking at me, us looking at each other, us looking at ourselves. John Smith’s dad, Lewis Klahr’s astounding collage, Seamus Harahan’s Belfast streets, De Stijl, the Republic of Korea: put your hands in the air!
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Kiss the Rain
The first verse of The Rain Couplets, in Klahr’s recognisable style of animation. About love, with a moving soundtrack. -
The Street of Everlasting Rain
In the second verse of The Rain Series, Klahr plays with romantic love and time perception, whilst elements from Kiss the Rain re-occur. -
Dad’s Stick
A film crammed full of warmth and compellingly dry insight introduces us to Mr. Tony Smith, John’s Dad, and ‘a perfectionist with a steady hand’. -
Cold Open
Drenched in creeping damp and malaise, the visual consequence of a powerfully ‘absent-minded gaze in response to the world’. -
Spell
A mentally unstable man. Sounds invade his thoughts, are reinforced and mingle with his memories. -
Temper Clay
A house in Seoul and one in the countryside are the point of departure for a poetic, musical film that ends with a quote from…