Forest on Location
Broersen and Lukács construct a replica of Białowieża primeval forest. Roaming this virtual forest is Iranian opera singer Shahram Yazdani, who performs his version of Nature Boy, echoing Nat King Cole’s hit, which originated there. In Forest on Location, nature is viewed as a mirror, reflecting our own perception.
Also in this combined programme
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Pareidolia
Abstract patterns made on 16mm film are used as source material for finding similar figurative images by an online search engine to create visual p
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Toli Toli
A visual poem linked with Guadalupian colonial heritage, weaving forgotten voices and stories together and bringing them back to light.
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Terril
Painstaking analysis of the peculiar geography of Charleroi, forever marked by the 1956 mining disaster and the ecological rebirth that followed.
The Blood of Stars
A woman and a girl discuss the omnipresence of iron that connects our bodies to the earth and the cosmos.
Meteorito
Mysterious ‘bird men’ seek the place the sun rises. In rituals they balance between life and death.
Film details
- Countries of production
- Germany, Netherlands, Poland
- Year
- 2018
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2019
- Length
- 12"
- Medium/Format
- DCP
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