Faceshopping
An eye-popping music video for electronic musician SOPHIE’s single, Faceshopping.
4'
USA
IFFR 2019
Video-game environments, smeared Google Maps renderings, and sweeping natural vistas all swirl together in Ross Meckfessel’s alluring meditation on the ways in which we look at our world. As drones and GoPros survey every stretch of land, one begins to think of the precarious splendour of our planet – endlessly photographed, but impossible to fully represent.
IFFR 2019
- 11'
- USA
- 2018
- Director
- Ross Meckfessel
- Premiere
- European premiere
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 2018
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2019
- Length
- 11'
- Medium
- 16mm
- Language
- no dialogue
- Producer
- Ross Meckfessel
- Sales
- Ross Meckfessel
- Cinematography
- Ross Meckfessel
- Editor
- Ross Meckfessel
- Sound Design
- Ross Meckfessel, Arash Shoushtari
- Cast
- Justin Kader, Jeff Hooton, Ke Xu
Also in this combined programme
Giverny I (NÉGRESSE IMPÉRIALE)
Shot on location at Monet’s famed garden in Giverny, Ja’Tovia Gary interrogates the white, masculine nature of Western art-historical narratives.
6'
USA
IFFR 2019
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.
11'
USA
IFFR 2019
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.
5'
USA
IFFR 2019
- Director
- Ross Meckfessel
- Premiere
- European premiere
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 2018
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2019
- Length
- 11'
- Medium
- 16mm
- Language
- no dialogue
- Producer
- Ross Meckfessel
- Sales
- Ross Meckfessel
- Cinematography
- Ross Meckfessel
- Editor
- Ross Meckfessel
- Sound Design
- Ross Meckfessel, Arash Shoushtari
- Cast
- Justin Kader, Jeff Hooton, Ke Xu
Programme IFFR 2019
Rabbit Hole
A trip through the wondrous world of the internet meme. Discover the memeverse in an exhibition, in the cinema, and during various events.
Read more about this programme#MEMEPROPAGANDA Goes to Rotterdam
This interactive exhibition looks at the growing role of memes in digital society, focusing on meme characters.
Europe
IFFR 2019
>be me
What stories do anonymous internet users share on internet forums? Come to >be me, where the special selection of 'greentexts' will inspire you to take part/post yourself.
Finland
IFFR 2019
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.
11'
USA
IFFR 2019