When the Smog-Filled Wind Began to Howl
An adaptation of Orson Welles’ adaptation of HG Wells’ The War of the Worlds, When the Smog-Filled Wind Began to Howl tells us what happens when otherworldly creatures decide to visit Earth. An historical testimony created with the help of Super-8 footage of The War of the Worlds found on eBay.
Also in this combined programme
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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 a nightmare
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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?
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The Blue Train
A video-photo-text portrait of the escape journey made by Vera Frenkel’s mother at the outbreak of World War II.
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Ein Gleiches
A new life for Goethe’s poem Another One (Ein Gleiches), originally written in 1780. For this film, Blixa Bargeld (Einstürzende Neubauten) wa
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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 tun
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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
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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.
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Division
The simple process of dividing and reassembling a piece of paper by hand creates a complex and intriguing animation that defies what seems impossib
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Buck Fever
A collage of YouTube videos with amateur footage of hunting that documents the tension felt before and after the hunt.
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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 malevo
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Papillon d’amour
Manipulated fragments from Akira Kurosawa’s film Rashomon (1950) create a new powerful and evocative scene.
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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.
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that now
A place within-a-place and a voice. A metaphor for the return home after time spent in a different place.
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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.
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 2012
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2014
- Length
- 5"
- Medium/Format
- File
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