A Günter Brus ‘action’ informed this surrealistic drama of symbolic self-destruction. Each gesture is paced so that one gets a tense, iconoclastic revelation of a man covered in white plaster lying surrounded by razor blades and a range of instruments seemingly taken from an operating theatre. (sixpackfilm)
Also in this combined programme
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All the Way to Te Rerenga Wairua
The work asks “what happens to a spirit after death?”, between māori and pākehā identity, on the path to heaven or hawaiki. (Circuit) -
Boardgame, or From the Ranks to Field Marshal
Recruits of the Union of South Africa board ships to the beat of S.E.K. Mqhayi’s sarcasm-laden poem The Dark Army. (Argos) -
Looking for the Moon
Tentative gestures of hands and body become symbolic of opposing emotions involved in closeness to one person, trust – the need to escape. (LUX) -
SHIFT SYMM.two
Sculptural sonic architecture plays on rigorous shifts of compositional symmetry with results that are both hypnotic and evocative. (LIMA) -
The Devil
The violence and vilification of the African-American struggle for civil rights examined in striking black-and-white archival footage. (Light Cone) -
Videoactive
Bergman’s Persona is the subject of inquiry in a Los Angeles video store with a unique categorisation system. (FilmForm) -
ACTUA I
A collage of scenes from the Paris barricades in May 1968. The 16mm and 35mm footage thrusts the audience right into the heart of the revolutiona -
Thirza Cuthand Is an Indian Within the Meaning of the Indian Act
As a light-skinned indigenous woman, Cuthand reiterates that racism and discrimination still happen to her, just in different ways. (V-tape) -
Living Inside
A 16-year-old Benning stops going to high school for three weeks and documents her experience with a video camera. (Video Data Bank) -
Riverred
Footage of children playing in the Godavari River juxtaposes with scenes from Cocteau’s Orphée to break the boundaries of each and create -
Aleatoria
Disorder incarnate, the lady of the wheel. Randomness, chance, and the unpredictability of being are at her command. (Winnipeg Film Group) -
Shadows
Past and future mingle at the harbour in Essaouira as children dive, fishermen work, women hang around, seagulls fly and construction works -
Tinseltown Swimming in Blood
Karen Zolo’s remake of Chris Marker’s La Jetée in music video form, for Destroyer’s single, ‘Tinseltown Swimming in Blood’. Starring Dan Bejar of Destroyer, Zolo’s… -
History Bleeds Under Your Fingernails
A short film on the history of taming the left hand and on the culture of cultivating the bodies that do not fit. (AV-Arkki)
Film details
- Country of production
- Austria
- Year
- 1965
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2018
- Length
- 5'
- Medium/Format
- 16mm
