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Burning Mountains That Spew Flame

Montañas ardientes que vomitan fuego

Samuel M. Delgado | Helena Girón | Spain | 2016 | 14' | | IFFR 2017

Immersing the viewer in the darkest corridors deep in the earth, this film suggests all sorts of underground activities, from the political to the mythical. Adopted by the resistance during the war, one of the longest volcanic tunnels in Europe is also the site of a particular chapter in political history.

All Short films at IFFR 2017

Also in this combined programme

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

  • 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 generi

  • 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 tendern

  • 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

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Film details

Country of production
Spain
Year
2016
Festival edition
IFFR 2017
Length
14"
Medium/Format
DCP

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