Goethe had a premonition of what would happen in Calabria in the far south of Italy on the early evening of 5 February 1783. Atlas 1783 examines what can still be seen of the destructive series of earthquakes that followed, thoroughly re-writing the area’s geology and history.
All Short films at IFFR 2017
Also in this combined programme
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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.
Film details
- Country of production
- Italy
- Year
- 2016
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2017
- Length
- 25'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
