Part prequel and part premonition, Medium Earth attunes itself to the seismic psyche of California. The film listens to its deserts, translates the writing of its stones, and deciphers the calligraphy of its expansion cracks, animating the stresses and strains of physical geography undergoing continental pressure.
Also in this combined programme
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Venomous Folds
Video essay on poison, medicine men, possession and death. Four Indians including a toxicologist and a snake charmer explain how they read the signs. -
A Way in Untilled
Beautiful, abstract images of a woman with a swarm of bees for a head and a dog with a pink front leg. Life and death…
Film details
- Country of production
- United Kingdom
- Year
- 2013
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2014
- Length
- 41'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
