The Stability of the System
Haunted by Italo Calvino’s books and the land art of Robert Smitson, this audiovisual trip takes us through the volcanic landscape of Lanzarote. The excursion is used as a background to raise questions about art and mathematics, and whether they generate form in the same way as nature’s creative eruptions.
All Short films at IFFR 2017
Also in this combined programme
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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
- United Kingdom
- Year
- 2016
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2017
- Length
- 17'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
