Mum, I'm Sorry
The objects found in someone’s pockets – photos, pieces of paper – tell the story of the owner’s life and hopes.
17'
Italy
IFFR 2019
Playfully collapsing the space between Hollywood Cinema and what Dao refers to
as 'Domestic Cinema', The Protagonists explores relationships
between representation and reality. Motifs of a clumsy animatronic
hand, colorful smoke bombs, a backyard garden and a metronome become
characters – protagonists, so to speak – in the deconstruction of
filmic colonisation.
IFFR 2019
- 8'
- Canada
- 2019
- Director
- Gabi Dao
- Premiere
- World premiere
- Country of production
- Canada
- Year
- 2019
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2019
- Length
- 8'
- Medium
- DCP
- Language
- English
- Producer
- Gabi Dao
- Sales
- Video Out Distribution
Also in this combined programme
Perfect Cut
Diamonds, forever an object of desire, are also the hardest substance on the planet, carving winding lines into our retina.
8'
Belgium
IFFR 2019
Specialised Technique
In this found footage film with its distinctive soundtrack the filmmaker studies the colonial perspective, returning authorship to the dancers.
6'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2019
The Tree
Meticulously edited, frame by frame, The Hare Krishna Tree comes to life, more than 40 years after the images were shot.
10'
USA
IFFR 2019
- Director
- Gabi Dao
- Premiere
- World premiere
- Country of production
- Canada
- Year
- 2019
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2019
- Length
- 8'
- Medium
- DCP
- Language
- English
- Producer
- Gabi Dao
- Sales
- Video Out Distribution
Programme IFFR 2019
Bright Future Short
Experimental short films and sound//vision, with live A/V performances.
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An investigation into a plane crash becomes the entry point to a web of seemingly unrelated events that appear to be deeply entangled.
28'
Netherlands
IFFR 2019
Aykan
Impressions of a city divided: no use trying to keep afloat in the tangle of images stitched together into a stereoscopic whole.
10'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2019
Birds in the Earth
Examination of the deeper questions concerning ownership of Sámi land through dance performances by two young ballet students.
11'
Finland
IFFR 2019