A group of people have been reading a book together for thirty years, and they have read it again and again. The text appears inexhaustible, its interpretation endless, the inconclusive nature of the reading exciting. The world seems to cease existing outside this reading room or, perhaps, it exists because of it.
Also in this combined programme
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Let Us Persevere in What We Have Resolved Before We Forget
Playing with anthropological film conventions. Priests on a Pacific island carry out rituals based on the prophecies of messiah John Frum.
Film details
- Country of production
- Belgium
- Year
- 2013
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2014
- Length
- 53"
- Medium/Format
- DCP
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