Part-fiction documentary into the New Silk Road. AAA Cargo traces the anticipation of infrastructure and trade on a planetary scale, following its distribution networks which are expanding across vast regions between China and Europe. Here, government efforts to speed up the movement of trade collide with more-than-human choreographies of sand, people and goods.
Also in this combined programme
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Soft Film
In Soft Film, the artist collects, arranges and archives her eBay purchases of dated objects according to a logic based upon colour, material, vint
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Mountain Castle Mountain Flower Plastic
Experimental animation inspired by hard-drive prototypes, or how storage containers for memories are accidentally turning into an environmental fil
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Armageddon 2
The internet in Cuba is very slow. A green-hooded mystery man relies on a black-market system with USB drives to get his movie fix.
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Pure Difference
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Art and Theft
Grappling with the constructed nature of storytelling, the playful collage of images on theft in Sara Magenheimer’s film distract us from the
Film details
- Countries of production
- China, UK
- Year
- 2018
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2018
- Length
- 34"
- Medium/Format
- DCP
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