At last, a film that gives voice to the anxiety and rage unleashed by Brexit Britain. With fire as the film’s central metaphor, artist Callum Hill welds together stories real and fictional, personal and political, to dwell on the contradictory impulse to destroy in the hope of progress.
Also in this combined programme
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Above Us Only Sky
An investigation into a plane crash becomes the entry point to a web of seemingly unrelated events that appear to be deeply entangled.
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Interbeing
Shot with a thermal camera, Interbeing is based on documentation of social structures and their approaches to trust and fear.
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Life After Love
A shifting in the light of the lot, where parked cars become containers for a collective experience of estrangement.
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TÅKE
The spectacle of fog appearing in Oslo, the Azores, Beijing and Newfoundland, beautifully captured in various film formats.
Film details
- Countries of production
- Germany, UK
- Year
- 2018
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2019
- Length
- 15"
- Medium/Format
- DCP
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