The first form of history is the story you tell yourself. In The I Mine paleoanthropologists dig for our ancestors while miners dig for diamonds. Simultaneously, the entries of a historian’s diary reveal his own digging for the most valuable diamond: the ‘self’.
All Short films at IFFR 2017
Also in this combined programme
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Flight Paths
Shot from the perspective of an avian observer, Robert Todd’s camera traces pathways and patterns that exist on the street but to which we rarel -
025 Sunset Red
Red colours the Californian landscape; red is the blood that flows and leaves a trail to the Basque Country. “Everything of value is defenceless.” -
Children of Lir
Children of Lir is made entirely from still photographs from the LIFE Magazine archives. An impressive flicker creates a sense of depth and motion to -
The Colour of His Hair
Drama and documentary merge in an impressionistic meditation on outlawed queer life and the struggle for gay rights in the UK in the 1960s.
Film details
- Countries of production
- Netherlands, Spain
- Year
- 2017
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2017
- Length
- 27'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
