Ja’Tovia Gary interrupts sumptuous footage of Claude Monet’s garden in Giverny with images of black men killed by the state, including Philando Castile’s live-stream murder by police. The tension between these clips and the serenity of Monet’s garden compels the viewer to consider imperialist violence and the white, masculine gaze of Western art history still looming large today.
Also in this combined programme
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this country is lonely
RATGIRL is a digital artist who crafts alluring Instagram stories tracing the echoes of apartheid in South Africa, until she completely loses herself -
I’ve Never Been a Fisherman
Joe Stankus’s profile of filmmaker and street photographer Jay Giampietro and how he captures New York’s strangest citizens on Instagram. -
Please step out of the frame.
Using Super-8, a desk and a laptop, Karissa Hahn creates a playful choreography of body and screen. -
Hi I Need to Be Loved
Marnie Ellen Hertzler hires actors from Craigslist to perform her spam emails in this consideration of modern image-making in an algorithmic era. -
The Air of the Earth in Your Lungs
Shot on 16mm, Ross Meckfessel’s sensual odyssey through natural landscapes and digital textures satisfyingly defies concrete interpretation. -
Lost Episode
Christopher Radcliff cuts together various reactions to a terrifying, fabricated Mickey Mouse cartoon, in this unsettling experimental piece. -
Little Lower Than the Angels
NEOZOON explores the memeification of American Christian iconography and rituals, finding rhythms and patterns in unlikely places.
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 2017
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2019
- Length
- 6'
- Medium/Format
- Other
