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 film.
15'
USA
IFFR 2016
Berlin-based duo OJOBOCA mix spiritualism and ethnographic filmmaking in their observation of Javanese masked monkey performances that originated as religious rites to invoke the dead. Together with the monkeys and their masters, we find ourselves in the area where shadows, dreams and death meet.
Also in this combined programme
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 Thailand.
7'
Thailand
IFFR 2016
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.
14'
USA
IFFR 2016
Radio at Night
An assemblage of distorting and looping audiovisual material, including industrial documentation, medical imaging, news broadcasts, birds and fish.
8'
Germany
IFFR 2016
- Directors
- Anja Dornieden, Juan David González Monroy
- Premiere
- International premiere
- Countries of production
- Germany, Indonesia
- Production Year
- 2015
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2016
- Length
- 30'
- Medium
- 16mm
- Language
- English
- Producers
- Anja Dornieden, Juan David González Monroy
- Production Company
- OJOBOCA
- Sales
- OJOBOCA
- Screenplay
- Juan David González Monroy, Anja Dornieden
- Cinematography
- Juan David González Monroy, Anja Dornieden
- Editor
- Juan David González Monroy, Anja Dornieden
- Production Design
- Juan David González Monroy, Anja Dornieden
- Sound Design
- Juan David González Monroy, Anja Dornieden
- Website
- http://www.ojoboca.com
Programme IFFR 2016
Bright Future Short
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Experience an ambitious alcoholic’s life first-hand. Before you know it, he has groped the wrong barmaid.
13'
Germany
IFFR 2016
Analysis of Emotions and Vexations
The moods of the Polish poet, musician and artist captured in a sober, yet impressive pencil-drawn animation.
14'
Poland
IFFR 2016
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 film.
15'
USA
IFFR 2016