A Brief History of Collapses
The uncanny similarity between Kassel’s Museum Fridericianum and the Darul Aman Palace in Kabul – two buildings constructed two centuries and a continent apart – is exploited to explore parallels, divergences and connections between their present and past conditions, uses, narratives and contexts. (MG)
Also in this combined programme
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Starring Sigmund Freud
Starring Sigmund Freud is a video memento of Sigmund Freud’s little-known film career. The video collects the dozens of appearances that the character -
Phantoms of a Libertine
16mm animism that enigmatically reveals a lost friend through the objects, photographs, and dust, that is all that remains to illuminate an empty flat -
A Sketch of Manners (Alfred Roch’s Last Masquerade)
An exceptional photograph is the basis for a re-enactment of the last Palestinian masked ball in Jerusalem, held in 1942.
Film details
- Countries of production
- Afghanistan, Germany, USA
- Year
- 2012
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2013
- Length
- 22'
- Medium/Format
- HDcam
