In the current age of the Anthropocene, human actions have significantly altered the earth’s surface in the geological time scale. Shot from the cold distance of a helicopter, Rosa Barba’s 35mm film focuses on radioactive waste storage sites to reflect on the human imprint and its prolonged ramifications.
Also in this combined programme
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Radio at Night
An assemblage of distorting and looping audiovisual material, including industrial documentation, medical imaging, news broadcasts, birds and fish.
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The Mess
Computer-animated video taking us to the threshold of a utopian labyrinth. A solitary female figure has to clean up the mess it inadvertently spawn
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The Masked Monkeys
Satirising ethnographic documentary, OJOBOCA documents the training of masked monkeys whose performances take us to where shadows, dreams and death
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Ghost Rabbit & The Casket Sales
Quiet moments of everyday life are interrupted by a jagged remix of a native song in Arnont Nongyao’s playful poem on the current situation in Thai
Film details
- Countries of production
- Germany, USA
- Year
- 2015
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2016
- Length
- 15"
- Medium/Format
- 35mm
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