Âmes de fous
A few scenes and photos is all that remains of the film Âmes de fou. What might it have been? This performance reconstruction offers one splendid vision.
24'
France
IFFR 2019
The remains of a propaganda film against anti-Semitism. We know the story well enough to fill in the gaps. An extra dimension of analogue allure comes courtesy of the emulsion’s deterioration. Time lends this work a modernity it never had in this shape and tone. Inou Ki Endo’s music congenially adds more.
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A cinematographically minimalist prose poem crafted using nothing but the titles of movies that are lost. A reverie supreme.
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Japan
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Mixed Nuts
An early Stan Laurel comedy made using material from two other films – one of which is now considered lost. A true treat in many ways.
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USA
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- Director
- Georg Kundert
- Country of production
- Austria
- Production Year
- 1919
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2019
- Length
- 28'
- Medium
- DCP
- Language
- silent
- Production Company
- Listo Filmfabrik
- Sales
- Filmarchiv Austria
Programme IFFR 2019
Laboratory of Unseen Beauty
Total cinema: from historical treasures to the edge of the technically possible – film as a laboratory of constant re-invention, an archive of dreams and futures.
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A few scenes and photos is all that remains of the film Âmes de fou. What might it have been? This performance reconstruction offers one splendid vision.
24'
France
IFFR 2019
Apple in the River
When the termination of the film Maritime Climates created a quota problem for Rīgas Kinostudijā, a shelved documentary instead became the loveliest of teenage romances!
76'
Latvia
IFFR 2019
The Better Way Back to the Soil
A cinematographically minimalist prose poem crafted using nothing but the titles of movies that are lost. A reverie supreme.
8'
Japan
IFFR 2019