The filmmaker’s mother is a retired sociologist whose house is full of boxes and boxes of hand-written index cards. The immense archive is opened up through the stories behind the cards. This personal history raises the question of what sociology can mean in terms of understanding the position of culture in society. “Wars of ideas don’t just preoccupy you when you’re a student. If you have a temperament with an open mind they go on disturbing you all your life.”
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Ultramarine
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La bala de Sandoval
In a rainforest in Ecuador, Isidro Varga and his brother recollect the times when a bullet and a broken bottle nearly ended his life.
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Red Film
A dizzying array of colours, textures and literary quotations point to the perfidious capitalist pressures on women to conform and consume.
Film details
- Country of production
- UK
- Year
- 2018
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2019
- Length
- 9"
- Medium/Format
- DCP
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