Natalie Kalmus was the ex-wife of technicolour inventor Herbert Kalmus, and was the colour consultant on hundreds of colour films, including The Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind and The Red Shoes. Satz’s tribute to this theorist of ‘colour consciousness’ also brings to mind Paul Sharits and Dario Argento. See also Joan the Woman – With Voice in POST SCRIPT in Regained.
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Experiments in Buoyancy
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The Emblazoned Apparitions
In this hommage to the end of cinema, disintegrating slapstick footage is haunted by the voices of Thomas Edison and Harry Houdini. -
Handful of Dust
Revisiting a canyon where John Wayne fought the Indians in 1954, the filmmaker finds nuclear radiation at this former above-ground testing site. -
A Third Version of the Imaginary
A peek behinds the scenes at the film library of the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation in Nairobi leads to a meditation on the Swahili word for… -
G Is the Dial
Two young women from Leeds face a mysterious object on their kitchen table, and try to make it function. -
ELSA merdelamerdelamer
This suggestive experiment was inspired by Man Ray’s and Duchamp’s lost film of the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven shaving her pubic hair. -
El adios largos
A fake restoration of a colourful Robert Altman sequence, with a private detective hilariously dominated by his cat. Not for purists! -
The Dark Galleries
Provost creates a fascinating hall of mirrors through a splendid montage of film noir scenes, in which the actors face a painted portrait. Also see…
Film details
- Productieland
- United Kingdom
- Jaar
- 2013
- Festivaleditie
- IFFR 2014
- Lengte
- 7'
- Medium/Formaat
- DCP
