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Survival Strategies

Combined programme | IFFR 2014

IFFR invited 15 independent distributors of video art and experimental film from the DINAMO network to each submit a film title. The result is the Survival Strategies film compilation.

Survival Strategies

  • Tea Party

    Five blind guests arrive at a tea party. They walk across the room toward the tea table, but their simple movements turn the event into a nightmare.

    • Spectrum Shorts

  • Deadline

    A running man, exhausted and near collapse, is teased onward by the disembodied red lips of a woman. Will the man meet his deadline?

    • Spectrum Shorts

  • The Blue Train

    A video-photo-text portrait of the escape journey made by Vera Frenkel’s mother at the outbreak of World War II.

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  • Ein Gleiches

    A new life for Goethe’s poem Another One (Ein Gleiches), originally written in 1780. For this film, Blixa Bargeld (Einstürzende Neubauten) was the com

    • Spectrum Shorts

  • Tunnel Vision

    The train slides out of the station and we’re plunged into a nocturnal ballet of converging parallel rails, shimmering lights and endless tunnels.

    • Spectrum Shorts

  • Separation des soeurs siamoises

    Dr. Doyen performs surgical operation to separate the Siamese twins Radica and Doodica, taken from the Barnum Circus in London and brought to Paris.

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  • Mariage blanc

    In Morocco, the title means an arranged marriage between a Moroccan man and a European woman to obtain a residence permit and European citizenship.

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  • Division

    The simple process of dividing and reassembling a piece of paper by hand creates a complex and intriguing animation that defies what seems impossible.

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  • Buck Fever

    A collage of YouTube videos with amateur footage of hunting that documents the tension felt before and after the hunt.

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  • L’infirmière cannibale

    A nurse steals corpses and eats their brains. The hospital’s staff condemn her cannibal practice and take immediate action to stop her malevolent deed

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  • Papillon d’amour

    Manipulated fragments from Akira Kurosawa’s film Rashomon (1950) create a new powerful and evocative scene.

    • Spectrum Shorts

  • When the Smog-Filled Wind Began to Howl

    We know now that in the early years of the twenty-first century this world was being watched closely by intelligences greater than man.

    • Spectrum Shorts

  • 2011 12 30

    A naked woman draws the outline of her body. The process and the unexpected result show her brave and playful approach to bodily changes.

    • Spectrum Shorts

  • that now

    A place within-a-place and a voice. A metaphor for the return home after time spent in a different place.

    • Spectrum Shorts

  • Contemporary Artist

    Ximena Cuevas is the artist about to meet a curator and we are about to meet her anxieties while she prepares herself for the event.

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