An elegant 16mm miniature that developed as a spontaneous ‘exquisite corpse’. Christopher Becks turned a single camera roll into an abstract light show without realising that fellow filmmaker Peter Miller’s hidden soundtrack was on the roll. The ghost track seems to have written the images.
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. -
Beyond Expression Bright
Where empiric observation turns into imagination has been queried for centuries. Beyond Expression Bright walks along the boundary. -
Sou
Simple, yet effective animation of rock formations and strata. Solids become liquid, like our sense of time.
Film details
- Country of production
- Germany
- Year
- 2012
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2013
- Length
- 4'
- Medium/Format
- 16mm
