Filmed in the Andes, ALTIPLANO is set in a geological universe of ancestral salt flats, volcanic deserts and coloured lakes. This is the heart of a natural ecosystem threatened by a century of saltpeter and nitrate mining and recent geothermic exploitation. ALTIPLANO reveals this ancient land as a vibrating Ektachrome landscape, transformed through in-camera editing, complex 16mm pixelation and superimposition techniques into spaces that exist in a multitude of times simultaneously.
Also in this combined programme
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Nehemías
A portrait of Christian, who migrated from the city to the jungle village of Cocachimba, Peru, where he finds himself an outsider.
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Freedom of Movement
In the Olympic marathon in Rome 1960, Ethiopian Abebe Bikila won Africa’s first gold medal, running barefoot.
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The Glamorous Boys of Tang
In his characteristic style of slow-motion camp, Su Hui-yu invokes lost scenes from a glitter-scattered, blood-splattered orgy from a 1985 cult fil
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Film details
- Countries of production
- Argentina, Canada, Chile
- Year
- 2018
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2019
- Length
- 16"
- Medium/Format
- 35mm
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