At dawn, goats leap about in a run-down graveyard while late-night dancers welcome the morning sun. In a remote Haitian village there is a dance with slaves and masters: the whipping zombie ritual. To trance-inducing music played by rara bands, men whip and fight until they die and are reborn in the infinite cycle.
All Short films at IFFR 2017
Also in this combined programme
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Um campo de aviação
Speculative geological fiction links a living mountain obscured by mist to the story of a rubble-engulfed modernist city.
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Pattern Language
Highly organised, richly layered patterns move in accordance with sound frequencies and rhythms, towards the construction of an endlessly changing
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Waypoint, Follow, Orbit, Focus, Track, Pan
During a trip across Croatia, eteam uses a drone camera to study the art of camouflage .
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On the Origin of Fear
Deep-seated traumas of Indonesia are rooted out when a man dubs the roles of both perpetrator and victim over a docudrama on the 1965 attempted cou
Film details
- Country of production
- Italy
- Year
- 2017
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2017
- Length
- 27"
- Medium/Format
- DCP
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