A woman and a girl discuss the omnipresence of iron that connects our bodies to the earth and the cosmos. Suggesting that residues of the formation of the universe exist in our blood, the essay film sees iron as at once transhistorical and geopolitically specific, marked by its use in the Iron Age, mining and warfare.
Also in this combined programme
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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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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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Meteorito
Mysterious ‘bird men’ seek the place the sun rises. In rituals they balance between life and death.
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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.
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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- Country of production
- India
- Year
- 2017
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2019
- Length
- 13"
- Medium/Format
- DCP
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