A ladder defies gravity with the aid of two bright red balloons. Its triumphant pose is at the same time the denial of its very functionality. Izaki is particularly interested in portraying the passage of time as it relates to life. Suggestion and simplicity play fundamental roles in his art.
Also in this combined programme
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Homo Sapiens (coda)
The final minutes of Geyrhalter’s monumental documentary evoke a planet deserted by its most ambitious inhabitants, the human species. Only ruins rema -
Untitled
When this painting was first displayed in 2014, all one could see was a blank canvas. By now it evokes an other-worldly landscape, a colourful… -
Untitled (Tea Set)
Frozen milk in the shape of a tea set is presented in a showcase, reminding us of Snow White’s glass coffin. No eternal life without… -
Fallen Astronaut
Two years after Apollo 11 landed the first men on the moon, the Apollo 15 mission took not only the first lunar rover, but also… -
Veronica
Two projectors are animating robot legs. Driven by the zeros and ones of an Arduino, the sound of the projectors provides a mechanical rhythm for… -
Stardance
Dust particles float about in front of a black backdrop. Lit by rays of light, they dance in all directions in a timelessness equal to… -
Private Human
Hanging like a baroque drapery, this fusion of soft, flesh-coloured fabric with metal ornaments evokes the interior of the body and the organs it cont -
Orbital Vanitas
Without any limiting sense of scale, the beauty of the earth, sun and stars is explored from inside an enormous human skull that is orbiting… -
Puppet Theatre
Blending modern architecture with elements of fairy-tale castles, this futuristic toy theatre also folds together into a rocket, pointing to the heave -
Interregnum
Hordes of people discipline themselves into a long row or a slow parade. Grief is on their faces, but the reason for their distress remains… -
The White
Two white TV screens are reflected on a glass plate. That plate doesn’t show a white image, as could be expected, but two dark streams of… -
A Timeline in Four Layers
A three-dimensional timeline introduces the rich history of future-oriented thought and practice from which the conceptual tools of futures studies ar -
Toynbee Convector
Photographic ‘images of a future’, shot in current reality to the detailed instructions of professional futurists, as a deliberately literal interpret -
Shelter #6
Shiny aluminium and gold-coloured sheets were once a typical ingredient of aeronautic aesthetics. Nowadays most people identify it with an emergency b -
toxiThropea
toxiThropea poetically researches the tense and toxic relationship between humans and nature and exposes our inability to maintain our only biosphere.
Film details
- Year
- 2013
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2018
- Medium/Format
- -
- Premiere status
- -
- Director
- Izaki Yasunari
