We Had the Experience But Missed the Meaning
‘We had the experience but missed the meaning’ is a line from a T.S. Eliot poem. Film as poetry. Images analogous to words. This film expresses a personal experience and seeks to make something actually significant into cinema.
Also in this combined programme
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Trissákia 3
A ruin proves to be more than piles of stone. The view out from the remains of a Byzantine church in Trissákia, Greece. -
Verses
Animation made from mould-damaged juvenile hall ledgers. Full of Rorschach-like patterns that reveal detention’s impact on young inmates. -
Listening to the Space in My Room
Portrait of a space once inhabited by the filmmaker adheres to a precise, yet enigmatic sound-image construction that carries rare emotional weight. -
Sea Series #9, 11, 12, 13, 14
Five seascapes shot on five eroded rolls of film turn into gold in John Price’s hands. -
Flow
Flowing, abstract high contrast, black-and-white images pull viewers into an interior process of change and awareness.
Film details
- Countries of production
- Spain, USA
- Year
- 2014
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2014
- Length
- 8'
- Medium/Format
- 16mm
