Short but fascinating ode to human inventiveness. Paul Kos translates a well-known instruction from a survival manual into video: If there is no magnifying glass around to light kindling, try making fire with ice.
Also in this combined programme
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Whiplash
The beautiful images are brief, sometimes whimsical and counterpoint the music. Travel footage becomes attentive, joyful poetry. -
Cantaert Hunter 890602
Two women are determined to beat a path through a cornfield. No ear is going to stop them. -
Orde van dienst
Nine simultaneous frames scrutinise the rituals of nine different Reformed Church gatherings. -
Mademoiselle
A young woman incorporates the everyday verbal intimidation she has to put up with on the streets into an exorcism ritual. -
80 Million
The Egyptian revolutionary drum that initially sounded in the distance, explosively comes to life. -
A Forest Within a Forest
Guide Nashi leads the viewer through mysterious woods. What sort of creatures live here? Living organisms or robots? -
Our Protection
Photography, animation and video spotlight police brutality against peaceful demonstrators at a G20 conference. With music by LAL. -
Austerity Measures
A portrait of the Exarchia district in Athens during the austerity protests. Fists and flyers. Filmed in separated red, green and blue. -
Time and Fortune Vietnam Newsreel
This Mekas brothers’ parody features Lapland’s Minister of War. He is asked for his opinion on Vietnam. -
Señal de humo
We see cameras recording what appears to be a tense situation. We can picture the news. A mass of people marching; police, smoke, fire, flags. -
Two Islands
Staten Island and Hart Island, New York. Two enormous landfills. One for scrap metal, the other for the unclaimed dead. -
NabelFabel
A woman’s fighting spirit comes alive in a poetic close-up of her face. A pure expression of the art of survival. -
The Folded Edges Across the Rim
Waitress Marlene’s ordinary day changes into a mystical experience thanks to leopard print spandex, moving colours and a musical mantra.
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 2004
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2013
- Length
- 5'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
