The Many Colors of the Sky Radiate Forgetfulness
Disembodied narrators lament over the fragility of memory. In the quiet life of the forest, stone monuments stare back at us as if to let us know they’ll outlive us all. As the lush soundscape crackles and the images fade, we’re lured into the depths of ecological time and come to terms with the inevitability of being forgotten. See also Short Special: Basim Magdy.
Also in this combined programme
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Greetings to the Ancestors
Equal parts documentary, ethnography and dream cinema, Ben Russell presents the third part in a trilogy examining the ecstatic limits of utopia in the -
Night Soil – Fake Paradise
Study into the hallucinatory ayahuasca plant’s healing power for modern man. On the limits of Western medicine, love, feminism and eco-consciousness.
Film details
- Countries of production
- Egypt, Germany
- Year
- 2015
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2015
- Length
- 11'
- Medium/Format
- File
