After a treacherously calm prelude, Tscherkassky tears the integrity of naked bodies to shreds and focuses our voyeuristic look entirely on the medium itself. The ironic reference to the cadavre exquis, a surrealist poetic technique, also implies a statement about the death of analogue film, with its typical trucages in positive and negative.
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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
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Scales in the Spectrum of Space
A dive into the collective memory of the City of Chicago. In a very associative way, Silva samples 35 films to compile a mini city… -
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 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
- Austria
- Year
- 2015
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2016
- Length
- 18'
- Medium/Format
- 35mm
