Karen Zolo’s remake of Chris Marker’s La Jetée in music video form, for Destroyer’s single, ‘Tinseltown Swimming in Blood’. Starring Dan Bejar of Destroyer, Zolo’s homage to Marker implicitly addresses contemporary issues of identity, borders, and race through the lens of this revered classic. (Video Out)
Ook in dit verzamelprogramma
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All the Way to Te Rerenga Wairua
The work asks “what happens to a spirit after death?”, between māori and pākehā identity, on the path to heaven or hawaiki. (Circuit) -
Boardgame, or From the Ranks to Field Marshal
Recruits of the Union of South Africa board ships to the beat of S.E.K. Mqhayi’s sarcasm-laden poem The Dark Army. (Argos) -
Looking for the Moon
Tentative gestures of hands and body become symbolic of opposing emotions involved in closeness to one person, trust – the need to escape. (LUX) -
SHIFT SYMM.two
Sculptural sonic architecture plays on rigorous shifts of compositional symmetry with results that are both hypnotic and evocative. (LIMA) -
The Devil
The violence and vilification of the African-American struggle for civil rights examined in striking black-and-white archival footage. (Light Cone) -
Videoactive
Bergman’s Persona is the subject of inquiry in a Los Angeles video store with a unique categorisation system. (FilmForm) -
ACTUA I
A collage of scenes from the Paris barricades in May 1968. The 16mm and 35mm footage thrusts the audience right into the heart of the revolutiona -
Thirza Cuthand Is an Indian Within the Meaning of the Indian Act
As a light-skinned indigenous woman, Cuthand reiterates that racism and discrimination still happen to her, just in different ways. (V-tape) -
Living Inside
A 16-year-old Benning stops going to high school for three weeks and documents her experience with a video camera. (Video Data Bank) -
10/65 Selbstverstümmelung
Each image is paced to provoke a tense, iconoclastic revelation of a plaster-covered man taking part in symbolic acts of self-mutilation. (sixpac -
Riverred
Footage of children playing in the Godavari River juxtaposes with scenes from Cocteau’s Orphée to break the boundaries of each and create -
Aleatoria
Disorder incarnate, the lady of the wheel. Randomness, chance, and the unpredictability of being are at her command. (Winnipeg Film Group) -
Shadows
Past and future mingle at the harbour in Essaouira as children dive, fishermen work, women hang around, seagulls fly and construction works -
History Bleeds Under Your Fingernails
A short film on the history of taming the left hand and on the culture of cultivating the bodies that do not fit. (AV-Arkki)
Film details
- Productieland
- Canada
- Jaar
- 2018
- Festivaleditie
- IFFR 2018
- Lengte
- 5'
- Medium/Formaat
- DCP
