Combining negative and positive film images, Fire shows two women experimenting with various arduous methods to ignite a fire. Made for the Institute of Contemporary Arts to accompany the exhibition The sun went in, the fire went out: landscapes in film, performance and text. (LUX)
Also in this combined programme
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Amora
An ink animation on a window. Each painting is photographed and washed away, exposing the unconscious consumption of time. (Ezra Wube) -
Film Display
Film Display shows how movement is created in film. Hundreds of short shots slowly become a recognisable movement. -
home
home travels from the vivid memory of a place once called home, to the blurred remains of this memory, exchanged for a new reality, a… -
Rhizomatic Directed Simulation
Erupting Super-8 film reveals its silver secrets, while a silhouetted camera operator attempts to contain the experience, while being subjected to it -
Grid Corrections
When superimposing a rectangular grid on the surface of the earth, spherical deviations have to be fixed. After all, the grid has only two dimensions. -
Chicxulub – Tierra Extraterrestre
A taxi driver talks about the meteoric rocks on the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico that is famous due to dinosaur extinction. -
Liquid Solid
A montage of freezing soap, during which ice crystals grow into complex fractal-like patterns. The soundtrack is a mixture of soundscapes and recordin -
Chacarita
After 28 years, Guillermina Buzio returns to Buenos Aires to collect her mother’s ashes. (Vtape) -
Troublemaker on the Frequency
A glitched-out experiment that combines shortwave radio clips from 1985, VHS footage from Toronto Gay Men’s Chorus ‘Forte’, and audio from an En -
The Edges of Dagenham
A man is stranded in the London borough of Dagenham, seemingly unable to move. He finds some unexplained items. (Circuit) -
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Xénogénèse
A focus on the duality of film. Confusing it with vertical scratches. The film comically alludes to the circular nature of human life and the… -
Reply; Repeat Repeated; Delete; Favorite Favorited
Illustration of an internet landscape in which typical images of sex and violence flash across the screen. Irritation is skilfully depicted in this an -
Waste No. 2 Wreck
Filmed in the graveyard for refugee boats on Lampedusa. A story about how the value of garbage and rubbish can surprisingly change. (AV-arkki) -
Schwerelos
Jannis Lenz cuts a parallel through Fatima Moumouni’s performance with runners who cannot be stopped by anyone or anything. He gives their actions som
Film details
- Country of production
- United Kingdom
- Year
- 2016
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2017
- Length
- 6'
- Medium/Format
- File
