In 1659, Jan van Riebeeck, VOC employee and Dutch Commander of the Cape, South Africa, planted a hedge of indigenous wild almond trees. Its remnants still exist. In The Remnant the stories of two men, one a botanist and the other a tour guide, are interwoven with fragments from Van Riebeeck’s diary (Daghregister).
All Short films at IFFR 2017
Also in this combined programme
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Only the Beloved Keeps Our Secrets
Images of ritual and dance collected online overlap to obscure one another in Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme’s video, which contemplates t
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Atlante 1783
A romantic, rough-edged Mediterranean landscape. Atlante 1783 searches for clues in Calabria, where the 1783 earthquake re-wrote geology
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The Watchmen
“Visibility is a trap”, wrote Michel Foucault with regard to the panopticon as a model of control. Fern Silva’s The Watchmen
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Latency Contemplation 2
Seoungho Cho’s internal visions and his perception of the outer world come together in a fluent meditation on space, place and sound.
Film details
- Countries of production
- Netherlands, South Africa
- Year
- 2017
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2017
- Length
- 19"
- Medium/Format
- DCP
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