This Action Lies is about the limits of observation; about staring very hard at
something while listening to something else. It is a paranoid
polyphonic apology of a simple act: offering three perspectives on an
object that may not exist in a room that cannot exist, while at the
mercy of an unreliable monologue.
Also in this combined programme
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Cavalcade
Cavalcade deals with basic elements of the motion picture: movement and standstill, as a turning wheel interacts with strobe light synchronized with t -
Printed Sunset
The Hollywood trope of a couple gazing at a romantic sunset, deconstructed and transformed into a novel beauty. -
Kiss the Sky – Eye Trick the I
Visually attractive essay on trompe-l’oeil, deception, privileges, seductions and false freedoms. How to live in the post-privacy age? -
Aykan
Impressions of a city divided: no use trying to keep afloat in the tangle of images stitched together into a stereoscopic whole.
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Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 2018
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2019
- Length
- 32'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
