Through sophisticated digital effects, used with an ironic twist, we meet an exhausted, running man who is continuously instigated to run far beyond his strengths. The film is a metaphor for the power and social hierarchy in a consumerist society.
Also in this combined programme
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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. -
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. -
Buck Fever
A collage of YouTube videos with amateur footage of hunting that documents the tension felt before and after the hunt. -
Papillon d’amour
Manipulated fragments from Akira Kurosawa’s film Rashomon (1950) create a new powerful and evocative scene. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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 -
that now
A place within-a-place and a voice. A metaphor for the return home after time spent in a different place. -
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. -
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… -
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 -
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. -
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.
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 1981
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2014
- Length
- 4'
- Medium/Format
- File
