The otherwise flat city of Charleroi is defined by slag heaps – hills formed from the waste from coal mines. Filmed entirely from these ‘terrils’, the film weaves large-scale industrial tragedy with the poetics of ecological rebirth through a data-driven narration in which the terrils are the protagonists. (Bronte Stahl)
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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 poet
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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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Forest on Location
A virtual replica of Białowieża primeval forest. Iranian singer Yazdani performs his remake of Nature Boy, a song that originated there.
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The Blood of Stars
A woman and a girl discuss the omnipresence of iron that connects our bodies to the earth and the cosmos.
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Meteorito
Mysterious ‘bird men’ seek the place the sun rises. In rituals they balance between life and death.
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Film details
- Belgium, Hungary, Portugal
- Year
- 2019
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2019
- Length
- 13"
- Medium/Format
- DCP
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