A musical film experience. The sound, not the images, tells the story in this experimental film. Swinging strings and a brutal wind section. An homage to Ince and Hart, two crucial founders of the Western genre.
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From Our Own Correspondent
A journalistic animated documentary that studies the boundaries of professional and personal space using interview techniques.
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Karakia – The Resetting Ceremony
A ceremony on a glacier in New Zealand that erases the racism of colonial history with a Maori blessing.
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We Are Become Death
Triptych that reveals life on earth in all its gruesomeness and beauty. Destruction, be it natural or human, plays a major role.
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Bunte Kuh
Reliving memories of a holiday, a sense of impending doom. An experimental film chronicle, like flipping through a photo album.
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Panels for the Walls of the World
A 20th-century collage: ranging from Marilyn Monroe, moon missions and dancing twirlers to military parades. One of the first video mixing experime
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Extended Horizon
Marxt explores an inhospitable, rugged environment by drone. There are some fancy villas that protect the inhabitants and their property like fortr
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Les contagions barbares
Colourful collage in which this experimental film criticises Western ideas on gender, violence, sex and other taboos.
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Weapons Conference
Advert for the weapons industry. Playful and light in form, serious content that reflects on the role and power of the arms sector.
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There Are No Limits to What I Can Do
Richard Dinter from Sweden talks about his life as a kleptomaniac: from the triumphs of stealing to the poor example he is for his daughter.
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Verwisseling van de namen van de steden Rotterdam en Den Haag
On the banks of the Meuse, Wim Gijzen erects a new town sign: The Hague. What happens when you swap the names Rotterdam and The Hague?
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Trespass
In a realistic animation style, a little avatar reconnoitres the world around him, without leaving the four walls of his house.
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Burka Boogie Woogie
In this short graphic dance film, a burka leads a life of its own and plays with the fear of Islam.
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Two Thousand Walls (a Song for Jayyous)
An impression of the average evening of a family in Palestine’s conflict zone. Faint sounds. A prayer, a poem. The sound of a family.
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23 Barbiepuppen kippen um
23 Barbies in a row. One by one they fall accompanied by a cacophony of humming. Dramatic. Dryly funny.
Film details
- Country of production
- France
- Year
- 1978
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2016
- Length
- 6"
- Medium/Format
- 16mm
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