The latest abstract animation by London-based Sebastian Buerkner examines the fluid state between standing and falling, between waking life and spiritual ascendance. Borrowing its title from a song by 16th-century composer John Dowland, the film contemplates the place of spiritual transcendence in modern life.
Also in this combined programme
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Poem
Images cycle and combine into dream-like passages that reveal the infinite potentials of sight within the finitude of everyday objects. Based on a poe
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Spermwhore
Experimental film about unwanted childlessness in a world where heterosexual relationships dictate. The possibility of pregnancy can be gifted, shared
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Deseos
Fictional correspondence between a Columbian and a Lebanese woman demonstrates how laws and religion determine the dominant discourse on sexuality.
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Undisclosed Recipients
Sandro Aguilar gets inside the minds of people at the Paredes de Coura music festival. His suggestive perspective adds a liberal pinch of alienation.
Film details
- Country of production
- UK
- Year
- 2015
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2016
- Length
- 5"
- Medium/Format
- DCP
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