Fragments of Jean Cocteau’s classic Orphée, put together in the darkroom on the optical printer, reveal the other side of cinema in this new context. ‘An impossible film project: Buster Keaton stars in the outtakes from Cocteau’s Orphée, made by me for the cutting-room floor.’ (MHC)
Also in this combined programme
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memento mori
A meditation on immortality. memento mori is a hallucinatory time-lapse made from over 100,000 photographs from the maker’s life. -
The Toxic Camera
Featuring a camera with the power to kill, a modern-day parable that weaves a narrative through Geiger-counter memories of Chernobyl. -
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 2012
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2013
- Length
- 6'
- Medium/Format
- 16mm
