Relief revisits footage gathered at the scene of a car accident. Using the moving image in various states of transformation, the piece looks at the ambience of a violent event, and imagines itself as its sole artefact. Images are presented as rogue data, perhaps unreliable, with both human and mechanical origins.
Also in this combined programme
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The Liquid Casket/Wilderness of Mirrors
Paul Clipson returns to Rotterdam with a captivating abstract work that demonstrates why celluloid’s beauty still hasn’t been surpassed
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Undead Sun
Set in aircraft testing facilities during the First World War, this essay film considers the many forms of concealment involved in war and its afte
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Requiem to a Shipwreck
A fabulously reserved video as a suitable ode to a bizarre shipping disaster. Rafa created this work during her residency at the Rijksakademie in A
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The Old Jewish Cemetery
First an ordinary Jewish cemetery, then a mass grave for over 1,000 Jews from Riga. Now a park that makes almost no reference to its history.
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Zement
Search for the hidden history of this idyllic Austrian village in Salzkammergut leads to surprising, disconcerting revelations.
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 2014
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2015
- Length
- 5"
- Medium/Format
- DCP
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