Loosely framed by Plato’s invocation of the lost continent of Atlantis in 360 BC and its re-re-resurrection via a 1970s science-fiction pulp novel, Atlantis is a documentary portrait of Utopia – an island that has never/forever existed… Even as we are slowly sinking, we are happy and content. (Ben Russell) See also Greetings to the Ancestors in compilation programme Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films 2.
Also in this combined programme
-
Moon Street
Moon Street is a street like no other. Its inhabitants are not from here, seem not to be one of us. They move feely like astronauts in space.
-
As Long As It Takes: Short
-
-
Field Notes
Experimental documentary about the ghosts embedded in the culture of Trinidad and Tobago, which focuses on the places where the natural and supernatur
-
As Long As It Takes: Short
-
-
My Time in the Cult of Melting Ancestors
An elaborately animated paean to Super Mario Brothers or Mussorgsky? It’s thrillingly impossible to know as Couillard’s psychedelic cosmologies unfold
-
As Long As It Takes: Short
-
Film details
- Country of production
- Malta
- Year
- 2014
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2015
- Length
- 23"
- Medium/Format
- DCP
You may also like this
-
She Walks
Liberating coming-of-age story about Marion who wants to leave the banlieue, but that means leaving her friends, parents and boyfriend too. Will that
-
As Long As It Takes: Short
-
-
A Minute Ago
As a hailstorm showers people on a beach, Rose’s playful video considers the enigma of losing grip on moments that used to feel so present.
-
As Long As It Takes: Short
-
-
Sound of My Soul
Animated poetic impression with author’s comment. There’s nothing ordinary about the shapes, impositions and miracles of magnification held within his
-
As Long As It Takes: Short
-