This perfect blend of cinema and painting was commissioned to supplement a book study. Provost elegantly exploits the rules of editing to create an imaginary museum visit. He guides us through living rooms and picture galleries of 1940s and 1950s noir crime thrillers, gothic melodramas and ghost stories. Also see in Spectrum Shorts The Painters in compilation programme Plastic People and Butterfly of Love in compilation programme Survival Strategies.
Also in this combined programme
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Experiments in Buoyancy
Digital images are rephotographed and animated frame by frame to explore hypothetical forms of decay. All the images suggest a feeling of gravity. -
The Emblazoned Apparitions
In this hommage to the end of cinema, disintegrating slapstick footage is haunted by the voices of Thomas Edison and Harry Houdini. -
Doorway for Natalie Kalmus
Close-ups of a technicolour instrument in a laboratory build up to form a kaleidoscopic ballet. Abstract flashes of light lead to a mystic experience. -
Handful of Dust
Revisiting a canyon where John Wayne fought the Indians in 1954, the filmmaker finds nuclear radiation at this former above-ground testing site. -
A Third Version of the Imaginary
A peek behinds the scenes at the film library of the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation in Nairobi leads to a meditation on the Swahili word for… -
G Is the Dial
Two young women from Leeds face a mysterious object on their kitchen table, and try to make it function. -
ELSA merdelamerdelamer
This suggestive experiment was inspired by Man Ray’s and Duchamp’s lost film of the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven shaving her pubic hair. -
El adios largos
A fake restoration of a colourful Robert Altman sequence, with a private detective hilariously dominated by his cat. Not for purists!
Film details
- Country of production
- Belgium
- Year
- 2014
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2014
- Length
- 10'
- Medium/Format
- File
