IFFR invited 14 independent distributors of video art and experimental film from the DINAMO network to each submit a film title on the theme 'Originals'.

Bright Future

Bright Future Short focuses on experimental short films and features the sound//vision programme, with live A/V performances.

Bright Future Short

Originals

IFFR 2018

Filmed in Venezuela and Spain, Trópico Desvaído collapses various modes of representation to explore the transformative processes of geographical and ethnographic inquiry. (Video Out)

Trópico desvaído

An intense and imaginative exploration of the materiality of 16mm celluloid, set to an original soundtrack of wicked jazz sounds. (EYE)

Le macaour

With tones of nostalgia and magic, a universe is revealed, where imagination and personal memories seem impossible to separate. (Winnipeg Film Group)

as close as possible/as far as possible

This is a media-fashioned attack aimed at the disturbing omnipotence of hyperrealism and fascist banality - best symbolised by Donald Trump's burning latex effigy. (Collectif Jeune Cinéma)

An Infinite Loop for Resistance  ft. Aldo Tambellini

The new, coffee-loving Nixon is marketed in a satirical balancing act. "A study of mental health in which the face is the mirror of the soul". (Filmform)

Nixon Visions

Bowl Me Over is an animated road movie painted directly onto film that travels the highways carved through the unpeopled wilderness of New Zealand's South Island. (Circuit)

Bowl Me Over

A search for the elusive Sasquatch with text generated, sourced and scoured from various articles and essays found on the internet. (Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre)

Tracking Sasquatch (field report #4)

Part-fiction documentary tracing the movements of the New Silk Road. AAA Cargo follows distribution networks which are expanding across vast regions between China and Europe.

AAA Cargo

Versions investigates the peculiarities of original and copy: both have a different status, and the copy is not necessarily inferior to the original. (LIMA)

Versions (2009)

A solo man dances to music on his headphones on a Santa Monica beach, while a story of racist aggression is casually discussed. (LUX)

The Deep West

A video about two fictional characters, as in letters, and two fictional characters, as in anthropomorphised mice, falling in love. (Video Data Bank)

Mickrys

In a vast, computer-generated world, characters are pursued and attacked one after the other. Who are they? And what are they protecting? (Image Forum)

Toward Hands

3rd Builders' Street focuses on the concrete-panel houses which appeared throughout the Soviet Union from the 1960s. The use of colour separation accentuates the dialectical image.

3rd Builders' Street

A colossal found-footage sunset comprising 10,000 photographs, presented on 16mm. (Arsenal )

Each image is paced to provoke a tense, iconoclastic revelation of a plaster-covered man taking part in symbolic acts of self-mutilation. (sixpackfilm)

10/65 Selbstverstümmelung

Portraits of women. And men, who are spellbound by them. The painted portraits are revenants, omens of absence, metaphors for loss and death, objects of desire and fixation. (Light Cone)

It Was Still Her Face

A metaphor for the war in Iraq unfolds underwater. The fish watches, powerless, as the star invades its territory, the bottle. (Heure Exquise!)

IFFR 2025
30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025

Originals

In this combined programme

as close as possible/as far as possible

Bowl Me Over

The Deep West

An Infinite Loop for Resistance ft. Aldo Tambellini

It Was Still Her Face

Le macaour

Mickrys

Nixon Visions

Secret, Lie and Deaths

Set

Toward Hands

Toward Hands

Tracking Sasquatch (field report #4)

Trópico desvaído

Versions (2009)

Bright Future Short

10/65 Selbstverstümmelung

3rd Builders' Street

AAA Cargo