Temper Clay uses a refined, sensitive composition with recurring elements such as paper, fire and running through bare woods to look at history. Specific gestures, routines and objects elicit a magical feeling. The filmmaker’s love of structures is underlined by dogr’s music.
Also in this combined programme
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Kiss the Rain
The first verse of The Rain Couplets, in Klahr’s recognisable style of animation. About love, with a moving soundtrack. -
The Street of Everlasting Rain
In the second verse of The Rain Series, Klahr plays with romantic love and time perception, whilst elements from Kiss the Rain re-occur. -
Dad’s Stick
A film crammed full of warmth and compellingly dry insight introduces us to Mr. Tony Smith, John’s Dad, and ‘a perfectionist with a steady hand’. -
Cold Open
Drenched in creeping damp and malaise, the visual consequence of a powerfully ‘absent-minded gaze in response to the world’. -
Spell
A mentally unstable man. Sounds invade his thoughts, are reinforced and mingle with his memories.
Film details
- Countries of production
- South Korea, USA
- Year
- 2013
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2013
- Length
- 24'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
