Once a familiar instrument to project moving images, the amateur household 16mm projector and its reel of film now appear nearly impossible to decode. Archivist, filmmaker and performance artist Lampert playfully brings all his concerns together in this short situation comedy with a happy ending. See also El adios largos in this compilation programme.
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… -
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
- Countries of production
- United Kingdom, USA
- Year
- 2014
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2014
- Length
- 6'
- Medium/Format
- HDcam
