The Masked Monkeys
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.
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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 spawned.
Film details
- Countries of production
- Germany, Indonesia
- Year
- 2015
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2016
- Length
- 30'
- Medium/Format
- 16mm
