Our imagination is equally confounded, said the 18th-century Swiss naturalist Charles Bonnet, by the infinitely great and by the infinitely small. Confounding, too, can be the instruments and empirical mechanisms we have to gauge immensity, particularly in their seemingly insurmountable limitations. (EE)
Also in this combined programme
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Dark Garden
The filmmaker’s garden in winter: skeletal and silvery plants and their supports appear out of the blackness of the screen in a series of filmic… -
Experience in Material 52:DUBHOUSE
Strict, but exquisite evocation links two artistic disciplines and two visions of light and darkness. Architecture and film meet in the cinema. -
Ten Minutiae
Pure cinema. Ten, minute actions with a 35mm camera and a table result in five wonderful, cinematic minutes. -
August and After
It is hard to imagine a festival without a new Nathaniel Dorsky film. In the exquisite August and After he deals with a great loss. -
Ritournelle
The roll of 16mm film given to director Becks by his colleague Miller contained a ghost track which seems to have scripted their abstract film. -
Sou
Simple, yet effective animation of rock formations and strata. Solids become liquid, like our sense of time.
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 2012
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2013
- Length
- 9'
- Medium/Format
- HDcam
