The Backup Tapes from Moon and Mars
In Pennsylvania, eteam discovered the towns Mars and Moon that seem to be simulations, scale models for testing whether people could live on other planets. With a cultural anthropologist’s perspective they view the dark and sunny side of human society from the future: ‘This is no barbershop, this is the last undercover recharge center for humanity.’ A melancholy portrait of U.S. society’s archetype. See also Phire in Signals: How to Survive…
Also in this combined programme
-
A Million Miles Away
Relationship drama’s apotheosis to the beat of a heavy metal anthem from the 1980s. Melancholy as a survival strategy.
-
Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films
-
-
The Voice Thief
When an opera singer loses her voice during an argument with her husband, she threatens to leave him if he doesn’t put things right by midnight.
-
Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films
-
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 2013
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2014
- Length
- 34"
- Medium/Format
- DCP
You may also like this
-
Grandma’s Dream
A rosy vision of teapots, carpets and dancing where we’re asked to draw the dots, add our own associations and powerfully complete the meaning for our
-
Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films
-
-
Inferno
Bartana visualises the building of the Third Temple of Solomon in convincing Hollywood style. The first was violently destroyed. Will history repeat i
-
Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films
-
-
Hacked Circuit
Gene Hackman meets foley artist Gregg Barbarnell in Deborah Stratman’s radical complication of the seen, the known, the heard and the undetectable.
-
Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films
-