Get Closer

Also in this combined programme

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  Super Smile

  • As Long As It Takes: Short

  Effie Wu always looks straight at the camera during her daily routine. Her constant smile becomes increasingly unnerving for viewers.
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  Monologue

  • As Long As It Takes: Short

  The camera focuses on a narcissist’s mouth while he boasts about his success with women and his job while he eats a plate of spaghetti.
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  Ego Sumo Version 2

  • As Long As It Takes: Short

  Emilio López-Menchero embodies a Japanese sumo wrestler in an empty ballroom, then mentally and physically battles his own mirror image.
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  Living

  • As Long As It Takes: Short

  Frans Zwartjes and his wife restlessly wander around their home. The music, the empty space and the use of an extremely wide-angle lens create an…
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  Shrugging Offing

  • As Long As It Takes: Short

  Shrugging Offing produces effects of excitement and revulsion, and ultimately sleep, in the viewer as if it were a body. A performance of desire and…
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  The Footstones in Night Writing

  • As Long As It Takes: Short

  Aldona lost her sight in 1986. This is her daily outing to Gutras Park where she wanders through both past and present.
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  Sexy

  • As Long As It Takes: Short

  Kurdwin Ayub observes, imitates and interprets Miley Cyrus’s video We Can’t Stop. Ayub’s desperate posture contrasts with Miley’s self-confidence.
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  Two Faces

  • As Long As It Takes: Short

  Hermine Freed caresses and kisses her mirror image in an attempt to reclaim her body in a male-dominated society.
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  La perle

  • As Long As It Takes: Short

  A girl uses her mobile phone’s camera to transform into the girl in Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring. Pixels become digital brushstrokes.
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  Jo

  • As Long As It Takes: Short

  Justine Pluvinage heads to New York with just two goals: to film and have sex. The camera serves as a means of meeting new men,…
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  Colin Is My Real Name

  • As Long As It Takes: Short

  Reinterpretation of Colin Campbell’s True/False (1972). Nemerofsky Ramsay portrays Campbell affirming and denying personal statements about himself.
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  Cela avait commencé par un accident

  • As Long As It Takes: Short

  Lydie Jean-Dit-Pannel has a monarch butterfly tattooed on every trip she takes. A record of her body that now boasts 41 butterflies.
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  Arid Edge

  • As Long As It Takes: Short

  Bike ride through the rugged Atacama desert in Northern Chile, the driest in the world. Phil Dadson finds calm in the seemingly endless emptiness.