Two circles, twice the same image: a restless pool of simmering tar. The soundtrack also evokes hellish associations with an eyewitness report of atom bombs dropping on Japan. The abstract image and resigned voice of a nurse lift the factual information to a different level, as if we are looking at an MRI scan of someone’s thoughts.
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I’ll Be Late for Dinner
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The Exquisite Corpus
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The Miniaturist
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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 symphony.
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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.
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 2016
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2016
- Length
- 10"
- Medium/Format
- DCP
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