“From down here, sunsets look like frozen fireworks trapped in a magic lamp.” Far from everything beneath the ocean’s surface has been catalogued, leading to an endless stream of speculations and fantasies for a poetic discourse by an entity from the deep. The images, fused together and mostly from above the surface, refer to our relationship with the sea and the consequences of human actions for nature. The hypnotising soundtrack pulls us into the depths.
All Short films at IFFR 2017
Also in this combined programme
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Cloacinae
This animation features Chinese shadow puppets and a plethora of pre-cinematographic techniques and follows a coin that has fallen into the sewer.<
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From Source to Poem
Artistic take on the world’s largest archive of audio cassettes, wax discs, vinyl, television, film, video and hard disks. What will the
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Last Days of Leningrad
Recorded in a small apartment in a city known in 1989 as Leningrad. That life no longer exists, the film is now a time capsule.
Film details
- Countries of production
- Egypt, Switzerland
- Year
- 2017
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2017
- Length
- 14"
- Medium/Format
- DCP
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