Radio at Night is an assemblage of distorting and looping audiovisual material, including industrial documentation, medical imaging, news broadcasts, footage of birds and fish, and a specially composed soundtrack sung in C minor. It grapples with the anxiety and pleasure of seeing and sensing in an era saturated by technology.
Also in this combined programme
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Bending to Earth
Aerial shots survey what appears to be a dystopian future, revealed as man-made storage sites for radioactive waste in Rosa Barba’s atmospheric 35mm f -
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… -
The Masked Monkeys
Satirising ethnographic documentary, OJOBOCA documents the training of masked monkeys whose performances take us to where shadows, dreams and death me -
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 spawned.
Film details
- Countries of production
- Germany, USA
- Year
- 2015
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2016
- Length
- 8'
- Medium/Format
- DCP