27 thoughts about my father
Mike Hoolboom reflects in 27 brief scenes on the life of his father, who died in June 2017. Using home movies, snapshots and found footage, he creates a portrait of a exceedingly clever, yet evanescent father figure haunted by the war that sent his own father to a concentration camp. Ultimately the family moved to Canada. This political history, intertwining dreams and personal experience, seems loose and associative, but first impressions can be deceiving.
Also in this combined programme
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Primeiro ato
Real life invades the theatrical bubble in this urgent drama, in which two Brazilian theatre students swap acting lessons for street protest.
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E-Ticket
Frantic re-cataloguing of a personal archive and a vehicle for the re-birth of forgotten images in 35mm still photographs, obsessively tape-spliced
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Party on the CAPS
Moroccan sci-fi using augmented reality, humour and a dose of frenzied Chaabi music to tell a story of displacement, biotechnology and privacy.
Film details
- Country of production
- Canada
- Year
- 2019
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2019
- Length
- 25"
- Medium/Format
- DCP
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