Found in the (now possibly lost) film archive at Lab Laba Laba in Jakarta, footage from a trailer of the 1981 Indonesian propaganda film Kereta Api Terakhir (The Last Train) melts into a soup of chemigrammed perforations. A film about the silence that follows the unspeakable; about blurred visions, untold histories and inaccessible archives.
All Short films at IFFR 2017
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Luna e Santur
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350 MYA
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Highview
Highview consists of four, partially overlapping, 16mm images that fully coalesce into a colourful abstract painting, but also often create a nar
Film details
- Country of production
- Australia
- Year
- 2016
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2017
- Length
- 12'
- Medium/Format
- 16mm
