This short film was conceived as a sexy chapter in the collectively made feminist biodrama The Filmballad of Mamadada. Child not only built her reputation by experimenting with narrative tropes and innovative montage, but equally by her free-spirited address of love and sexual mores.
Also in this combined programme
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Experiments in Buoyancy
Digital images are rephotographed and animated frame by frame to explore hypothetical forms of decay. All the images suggest a feeling of gravity. -
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. -
Doorway for Natalie Kalmus
Close-ups of a technicolour instrument in a laboratory build up to form a kaleidoscopic ballet. Abstract flashes of light lead to a mystic experience. -
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. -
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
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 2013
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2014
- Length
- 4'
- Medium/Format
- File
