In home, the camera starts from an extreme close-up of a painting portraying St. Catherine’s Square in Brussels. Gradually the camera travels backwards and the whole context is revealed, metaphorically illustrating the concept of communities, the construction of national identity and the potential loss of it after migration. (Argos)
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. -
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 -
Fire
Two women experiment with various arduous methods to ignite a fire in this combination of negative and positive film images. (LUX) -
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
- Belgium
- Year
- 2016
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2017
- Length
- 11'
- Medium/Format
- File
