Obstructed Landscape
Combined programme
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IFFR 2017
Sublime landscapes: fascinating and terrifying at the same time. Sometimes the view is obstructed by a historical event, a natural phenomenon, a personal vision, the gaze of the media, ambiguous images.
In this combined programme
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Atlante 1783
A romantic, rough-edged Mediterranean landscape. Atlante 1783 searches for clues in Calabria, where the 1783 earthquake re-wrote geology and -
Latency Contemplation 2
Seoungho Cho’s internal visions and his perception of the outer world come together in a fluent meditation on space, place and sound. -
Only the Beloved Keeps Our Secrets
Images of ritual and dance collected online overlap to obscure one another in Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme’s video, which contemplates the -
The Watchmen
“Visibility is a trap”, wrote Michel Foucault with regard to the panopticon as a model of control. Fern Silva’s The Watchmen opens opportuni -
The Remnant
In 1659 Jan van Riebeeck, Dutch Commander of the Cape in South Africa, planted a hedge of indigenous wild almond trees. Its remnants still exist.