A combination of stills, drawings and video traces the journey of passengers escaping from World War II by train. The narrative is interwoven with images taken by photojournalist Werner Worlf in 1945 on his return to Germany. The Blue Train was commissioned by Ryerson Image Centre in Toronto.
Also in this combined programme
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Mariage blanc
In Morocco, the title means an arranged marriage between a Moroccan man and a European woman to obtain a residence permit and European citizenship. -
When the Smog-Filled Wind Began to Howl
We know now that in the early years of the twenty-first century this world was being watched closely by intelligences greater than man. -
Buck Fever
A collage of YouTube videos with amateur footage of hunting that documents the tension felt before and after the hunt. -
Papillon d’amour
Manipulated fragments from Akira Kurosawa’s film Rashomon (1950) create a new powerful and evocative scene. -
Division
The simple process of dividing and reassembling a piece of paper by hand creates a complex and intriguing animation that defies what seems impossible. -
2011 12 30
A naked woman draws the outline of her body. The process and the unexpected result show her brave and playful approach to bodily changes. -
Contemporary Artist
Ximena Cuevas is the artist about to meet a curator and we are about to meet her anxieties while she prepares herself for the event. -
Ein Gleiches
A new life for Goethe’s poem Another One (Ein Gleiches), originally written in 1780. For this film, Blixa Bargeld (Einstürzende Neubauten) was the com -
that now
A place within-a-place and a voice. A metaphor for the return home after time spent in a different place. -
Tunnel Vision
The train slides out of the station and we’re plunged into a nocturnal ballet of converging parallel rails, shimmering lights and endless tunnels. -
Tea Party
Five blind guests arrive at a tea party. They walk across the room toward the tea table, but their simple movements turn the event into… -
L’infirmière cannibale
A nurse steals corpses and eats their brains. The hospital’s staff condemn her cannibal practice and take immediate action to stop her malevolent deed -
Separation des soeurs siamoises
Dr. Doyen performs surgical operation to separate the Siamese twins Radica and Doodica, taken from the Barnum Circus in London and brought to Paris. -
Deadline
A running man, exhausted and near collapse, is teased onward by the disembodied red lips of a woman. Will the man meet his deadline?
Film details
- Country of production
- Canada
- Year
- 2012
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2014
- Length
- 9'
- Medium/Format
- File
