The Living Need Light, the Dead Need Music
A colourful funeral procession travels from Ho Chi Minh City for a visual, musical tour of the eccentric funeral traditions and rituals of Southern Vietnam. Cultures linked by the raw symphony of a brass band. The Propeller Group builds an altar to the ‘global south’ where grief and joy meet on the threshold of life and death.
Also in this combined programme
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Things
A four seasons’ fable, we see a kaleidoscope of magic and uncertainty in Things, incredibly Ben Rivers’ fifteenth film at IFFR since his 2007 debut. -
Blinder
Dutch artist Tim Leyendekker’s fresh 16mm film gives us nouns, dry facts and retina-scouring light whilst resisting telling us what to do with these t -
Quiet Zone
Fear of Wi-Fi and mobile phones can take over your life if you are electromagnetically sensitive. Exceptionally depicted search for a radiation-free p
Film details
- Country of production
- Vietnam
- Year
- 2014
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2015
- Length
- 20'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
