A journey from the ancient to the modern with pop-cultural icon JD Samson where according to the film, ‘knowing means emptiness and the unthinkable opens out the world.’ Medea is a lush mesh of sources, symbols and sensuality where film language is deconstructed and the beholder is embroiled in fizzing ‘rhizomatic’ newness.
Also in this combined programme
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Corrections
Two men plan their parents’ murder under the watchful eye of witnesses. Exceptional use of plot, editing, image and text. -
Culebra Jr.
Eight young people seem trapped in time and space in a metropolitan apartment. Subtle, mysterious work. -
Helen of T
The daylight noir dream-weaver returns with an exquisitely pop slice of paradise lost and heart-breaking intoxication. -
The Undiscovered Drawer
Alchemised with wonder we’re ushered to wide-eyed transcendence with a hallucinatory tableau of clocks, domestic plastics and luridly soothing colour. -
Wantee
Lessons in representation, reflections on the art-heritage industry and freewheeling storytelling, all washed down with an obligatory cup of tea.
Film details
- Country of production
- United Kingdom
- Year
- 2013
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2014
- Length
- 12'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
