Taiwanese-Dutch filmmaker Lichun Tseng pulls viewers into an interior process of change and awareness using slow, flowing, abstract images. A universe that can only be truly appreciated in a cinema in its original 16mm format so that the darkest and most subtle elements become visible.
Also in this combined programme
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Sea Series #9, 11, 12, 13, 14
Five seascapes shot on five eroded rolls of film turn into gold in John Price’s hands.
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Verses
Animation made from mould-damaged juvenile hall ledgers. Full of Rorschach-like patterns that reveal detention’s impact on young inmates.
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We Had the Experience But Missed the Meaning
The title is a line from a T.S. Eliot poem. Film as poetry. Images analogous to words.
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Trissákia 3
A ruin proves to be more than piles of stone. The view out from the remains of a Byzantine church in Trissákia, Greece.
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Listening to the Space in My Room
Portrait of a space once inhabited by the filmmaker adheres to a precise, yet enigmatic sound-image construction that carries rare emotional weight
Film details
- Countries of production
- Netherlands, Taiwan
- Year
- 2013
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2014
- Length
- 17"
- Medium/Format
- 16mm
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