Car drifting, a key feature in Maeve Brennan’s wonderfully poignant documentary, is when the rear wheels of a car turn at such a force that the front wheels point in the opposite direction. In this film about the resistance to progress at the expense of history, three stories of men in contemporary Lebanon intertwine: a gatekeeper guards the ruins of Roman temples, a young car mechanic customises his car from scrap parts, and a conservator preserves clay artefacts.
Also in this combined programme
-
more than everything
A subtle visual experiment in fooling the senses using stereoscopy that sends different visual information to each eye.
-
The Remembered Film
Young soldiers are roaming through lush green woods. But something isn’t quite right. A lighthearted film connecting imagination and storytel
Film details
- Countries of production
- Lebanon, UK
- Year
- 2018
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2018
- Length
- 51"
- Medium/Format
- File
You may also like this
-
Maskirovka
Layers of stop-motion images edited into a flickering frenzy. Street protesters and soldiers on Maidan Square morph into Kiev’s underground q
-
Between Relating and Use
Nazli Dinçel’s latest work uses borrowed words, carefully etched in the 16mm film surface, turned inwards to explore how we use our lo
-
With History in a Room Filled with People with Funny Names 4
In a world where drones take on the role of spirits and co-exist with living species, Thai artist Korakrit Arunanondchai tackles the subject