A dialogue between East and West unfurls through the audio letters of an immigrant family in Molenbeek. They bear witness to the pain and yearning of the ones who stayed behind. It’s a haunted audiovisual mantra, reflected in the moody black-and-white images of social housing blocks in Brussels.
Also in this combined programme
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As Much Time as Space
Ingenious cinematic intervention by artist Katja Mater creates visual dialogue between her drawings and the interior of the Van Doesburg house in -
Monelle
Girls lie asleep in a modernist building, lit up for only an instant by flashes of light. A horror movie with a jolly ending. -
City of Tomorrow
Captivating architecture film explores Le Corbusier’s ideas on repetition and order from his early writings and the planned capital city of Chandigarh -
Enigmatic Whisper
A joyous game with 16mm images and sound from kinetic objects in the studio where Alexander Calder (1898-1976) still seems present.
Film details
- Country of production
- Belgium
- Year
- 2018
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2018
- Length
- 32'
- Medium/Format
- File
