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
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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… -
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 -
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
Film details
- Countries of production
- Malta, USA
- Year
- 2014
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2015
- Length
- 23'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
