Opening with, ‘There must have been some strange error in these experiments, the solution must have been too strong’, this deeply cinematic incantation shows that nothing could be more wrong. Conjuring up Shelley’s Frankenstein, the natural history films of Jean Painlevé, and speaking in the words of Darwin, the film instils a quiet yet powerful sense of wonder in rediscovering the wild shapes of nature.
Also in this combined programme
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The Palace on the Sea
The lead is a richly decorated, moored ship. A man and woman meet there as if in another time and place. -
Inferno
Bartana visualises the building of the Third Temple of Solomon in convincing Hollywood style. The first was violently destroyed. Will history repeat i -
Two Points of Failure
The disappearance of the analogue film medium, heralded by Jean-Luc Godard, is visualised by allowing film to disintegrate in a chemical solution.
Film details
- Country of production
- United Kingdom
- Year
- 2014
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2014
- Length
- 30'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
