The Emblazoned Apparitions

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.

  • Signals: Regained
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  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.

  • Signals: Regained
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  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.

  • Signals: Regained
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  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.

  • Signals: Regained
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  G Is the Dial

  Two young women from Leeds face a mysterious object on their kitchen table, and try to make it function.

  • Signals: Regained
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  The Dark Galleries

  Provost creates a fascinating hall of mirrors through a splendid montage of film noir scenes, in which the actors face a painted portrait. Also see Th

  • Signals: Regained
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  El adios largos

  A fake restoration of a colourful Robert Altman sequence, with a private detective hilariously dominated by his cat. Not for purists!

  • Signals: Regained
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  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 image.

  • Signals: Regained