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.
6'
Cuba
IFFR 2018
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
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 maliciousness of stealing.
8'
USA
IFFR 2018
Mountain Castle Mountain Flower Plastic
Experimental animation inspired by hard-drive prototypes, or how storage containers for memories are accidentally turning into an environmental film.
4'
USA
IFFR 2018
Pure Difference
Pure Difference asks its viewers "What is a number?". It deals with the inclination to rely on data as truth, reassurance, neutrality and security.
22'
Canada
IFFR 2018
- Director
- Solveig Suess
- Premiere
- World premiere
- Countries of production
- China, United Kingdom
- Production Year
- 2018
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2018
- Length
- 34'
- Medium
- DCP
- Languages
- Chinese, English, Russian
- Producer
- Solveig Suess
- Sales
- Solveig Suess
- Screenplay
- Ming Lin , Solveig Suess
- Cinematography
- Solveig Suess
- Editor
- Solveig Suess
- Production Design
- Solveig Suess
- Sound Design
- Josh Feola
- Music
- Josh Feola
- Cast
- Rune Steenberg Reyhé, Ravi Sundaram, Charmaine Chua
Programme IFFR 2018
Bright Future Short
Bright Future Short focuses on experimental short films and features the sound//vision programme, with live A/V performances.
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Each image is paced to provoke a tense, iconoclastic revelation of a plaster-covered man taking part in symbolic acts of self-mutilation. (sixpackfilm)
5'
Austria
IFFR 2018
3rd Builders' Street
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.
14'
Netherlands
IFFR 2018
AAA Cargo
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.
34'
China
IFFR 2018