A boy and his mother sit in a cardboard car in front of painted landscape. This postcard from his childhood is what triggers Chinese artist Lei Lei to go on a journey down the rabbit hole of memory. Put together with his signature style of melancholic collage, time jitters in and out of its usual flow as screenshots, found photos and propaganda images appear in succession as if pulled through an archaic machine to explore how truth is coloured by nostalgia.
Also in this combined programme
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Look Then Below
It’s happening beneath our feet. Ben Rivers’ latest film is about a lost civilisation in the hollow earth, basking in a subterranean gl
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The Lost Procession
Bani Abidi emphatically presents scenes from the daily lives of the Hazara community in Quetta, Pakistan, alongside narratives of persecution and e
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Progressive Touch
Can you make love to an irregular beat? Sex as dance and comedy, in this film about the relationship between sex, choreography and composing music.
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 2020
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2020
- Length
- 27"
- Medium/Format
- DCP
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