A Place I’ve Never Been
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 behaviour. Although the animation of photos can never become a surrogate for the restoration of ancient ruins, it does reveal all sorts of patterns and references.
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Colossal Cave
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The Stability of the System
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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.
Film details
- Country of production
- Switzerland
- Year
- 2015
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2017
- Length
- 5"
- Medium/Format
- DCP
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