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28 Jan – 7 Feb 2027

where were we

Combined programme | IFFR 2017

Since television and later the world wide web have radically altered our notion of time and space, our sense of experiencing the world has also changed. These essayistic short films from around the globe invite meditation on how we inhabit this planet, both on the surface and below.

In this combined programme

  • The Stability of the System

    Haunted by Italo Calvino’s books and the land art of Robert Smithson, this audiovisual trip takes us through the volcanic landscape of Lanzarote

  • A Place I’ve Never Been

    The absurd wealth of typical tourist photos that can be found online allows for new forms of archaeology. A frame-by-frame reconstruction of generic b

  • Tempo of Tomorrow Revisited

    In 1958, shortly before the communist revolution, a tourist film was made to promote Cuba. In 2014 the filmmakers revisited the same locations.

  • Remote

    The film transports to a landscape of silence and solitude, alone with the wind, eyes burnt by the light. A place that turns harshness into…

  • Burning Mountains That Spew Flame

    Immersing the viewer in the darkest corridors deep in the earth, this film suggests all sorts of underground activities, from the political to the myt

  • Colossal Cave

    Plato’s allegory of the cave is often read as a prefiguration of cinema. Yet this film illustrates how online gaming was born from a network…