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 tenderness. Although television and smartphones help to distract from the monotonous life in a secluded country village, the sense of community and place prevails.
All Short films at IFFR 2017
Also in this combined programme
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The Stability of the System
Haunted by Italo Calvino’s books and the land art of Robert Smithson, this audiovisual trip takes us through the volcanic landscape of Lanzarote -
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 generic b -
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. -
Burning Mountains That Spew Flame
Immersing the viewer in the darkest corridors deep in the earth, this film suggests all sorts of underground activities, from the political to the myt -
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…
Film details
- Country of production
- Belgium
- Year
- 2016
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2017
- Length
- 24'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
