Rappaport combines movie images into an alternative film history, based on the cinephile canon. Both well-informed and highly irreverent, his subversive meta-fictions trigger our desire for impossible encounters on the screen. But the same images also haunt our daily lives and our private dreams.
Also in this combined programme
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Wide.Love.Resist.Beautiful.Seduction.Violence.Your.Game.
Subverting the codes of the film poster, this in-situ installation evokes the pseudo-narrative of an impossible, yet strangely familiar film. -
Temps mort
Recuperating anonymous home movies, Rigole provides them with new intertitles and an interactive soundtrack on a vinyl record. -
The Gillian Hills Trilogy
Gillian Hills’s cameo appearances in Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange and Antonioni’s Blow-Up didn’t make her famous, but she did have an intriguing caree -
What an Excellent Day for an Exorcism
This small monitor work invites us to mentally step into the frame of the famous bedroom where Linda Blair was confronted with the priests in… -
Black and White Movies
The destruction of a VHS collection is documented by photograms of the material remains. Each film was destroyed in the spirit of its story. -
Joan the Woman – With Voice
Cecil B. DeMille’s 1916 portrait of Jeanne D’Arc is revisited for its special colouring technique when the martyr is seen burning at the stake. This…
Film details
- Country of production
- France
- Year
- 2013
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2014
- Medium/Format
- -
- Premiere status
- World premiere
