Personal moments are lost in film cuttings or disappear into a coloured fog only to suddenly reappear in a new constellation. This is the visual richness of Highview: four, partially overlapping, 16mm images that fully coalesce into a colourful abstract painting, but also often create a narrative as an exploded montage.
All Short films at IFFR 2017
Also in this combined programme
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Everything Turns…
Open investigation of number mythology. An almanac of time, space and place on Super-8 film, humorously referencing Hans Richter.
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The Captured Light of an Instant
Restlessness becomes concentration. Lichun Tseng’s film, inspired by Fernando Pessoa’s personal observations, is a layered, 35 mm exper
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Luna e Santur
Luna e Santur was inspired by a paranormal encounter. Masked figures engaged in a mysterious, passionate ritual filtered through stroboscopic
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350 MYA
The Tafilalt region in the Sahara Desert was once the Rheic Ocean. 350 MYA conjures the ocean’s presence in the landscape: deep time in the f
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The Last Train
Footage from the trailer of Kereta Api Terakhir, found in the archive of Lab Laba Laba, melts into a soup of highly imaginative imagery o
Film details
- Countries of production
- Hong Kong, UK, USA
- Year
- 2016
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2017
- Length
- 20"
- Medium/Format
- 16mm
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