Portraits of women. And men, who are spellbound by them. The painted portraits – a recurring motif of film noir and European postwar cinema – are revenants, omens of absence, metaphors for loss and death, objects of desire and fixation, which mesmerise the viewer. (Light Cone)
Also in this combined programme
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Versions (2009)
Versions investigates the peculiarities of original and copy: both have a different status, and the copy is not necessarily inferior to the original.& -
Bowl Me Over
Bowl Me Over is an animated road movie painted directly onto film that travels the highways carved through the unpeopled wilderness of -
An Infinite Loop for Resistance ft. Aldo Tambellini
This is a media-fashioned attack aimed at the disturbing omnipotence of hyperrealism and fascist banality – best symbolised by Donald Trump’s burning -
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The Deep West
A solo man dances to music on his headphones on a Santa Monica beach, while a story of racist aggression is casually discussed. (LUX) -
Secret, Lie and Deaths
A metaphor for the war in Iraq unfolds underwater. The fish watches, powerless, as the star invades its territory, the bottle. (Heure Exquise!) -
Mickrys
A video about two fictional characters, as in letters, and two fictional characters, as in anthropomorphised mice, falling in love. (Video Data B -
Toward Hands
In a vast, computer-generated world, characters are pursued and attacked one after the other. Who are they? And what are they protecting? (Image -
Trópico desvaído
Filmed in Venezuela and Spain, Trópico Desvaído collapses various modes of representation to explore the transformative processes of geo -
Tracking Sasquatch (field report #4)
A search for the elusive Sasquatch with text generated, sourced and scoured from various articles and essays found on the internet. (Canadian Fil -
Nixon Visions
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… -
Le macaour
An intense and imaginative exploration of the materiality of 16mm celluloid, set to an original soundtrack of wicked jazz sounds. (EYE) -
as close as possible/as far as possible
With tones of nostalgia and magic, a universe is revealed, where imagination and personal memories seem impossible to separate. (Winnipeg Film Gr
Film details
- Country of production
- Germany
- Year
- 2017
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2018
- Length
- 8'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
