Family of Man
Combined programme
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IFFR 2017
Vintage political paranoia from Belgium, Eisenstein’s posthumous outing as a homosexual, a mountain of mutilated female bodies and a Brazilian family album. On the psychology of collecting and the dangerous tendency to also categorise people.
In this combined programme
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Answer Print
Images on celluloid eventually deteriorate. In fact, a loss of colour is already noticeable in this poetic collage of recycled, predominantly magenta -
Conseil d’Etat
Footage from the 1950s evokes memories of both modernist euphoria and the Cold War. The soundtrack however refers to 1980s Belgian paranoia. -
SERGEI/SIR GAY
As a teenager, Eisenstein always signed his drawings ‘Sir Gay’. The waggish essayist Rappaport sees clear signs of his sexual orientation throughout t -
What Happened to Her
Endless scenes of men staring at female corpses. From beyond the grave an off-screen voice testifies about the forensic fetishisation of her body. -
Ghost Children
A procession of cheap snapshots, most likely assembled from discarded family albums. Voices reminisce about childhood, while the camera explores the f