A glimpse into the collective memory of the city of Chicago at the invitation of the Chicago Film Archive. In a very associative way, the experimental anthropologist and cineast Silva sampled a mini city symphony from 35 films, limiting himself purely to existing visual material. The soundtrack comes from Phil Cohran, known among other things for his work with Sun Ra.
Also in this combined programme
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They Were Just People: an Excerpt
Two circles, twice the same image: a restless pool of simmering tar. The soundtrack also evokes hellish associations: an eyewitness report of atom bom -
I’ll Be Late for Dinner
A rhythmic montage of photographs made by the Cassini satellite in orbit around Saturn, including the ‘imperfect’ images that never made it into the p -
Between the Bullet and the Hole
During World War II, it was mainly women who, as human computers, made calculations for ballistic tests and early computers. -
The Exquisite Corpus
After a deceptively quiet prelude, Tscherkassky tears the integrity of naked bodies to pieces and aims our voyeuristic gaze completely at the medium i -
The Miniaturist
A contemporary variation on Hiroshima, mon amour, but with a strong emphasis on the use of colour and with the voice of nuclear physicist J.…
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 2015
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2016
- Length
- 7'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
