Zachary Epcar’s films always know how to lend unexpected playfulness and tension to quotidian platitudes and banalities. In Billy he deconstructs a scene from the soap Melrose Place into an abstract psychodrama. A reflection on the petit bourgeois fears of American households.
Also see Artist Talk: Zachary Epcar.
Also in this combined programme
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The Sculpture
Aesthetic re-imagining of the complicated relationship triangle between China, Africa and Europe. From African sculptures to The Terminator.
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People on Sunday
Can one relax under the gaze of a camera? A film crew struggles to unwind in this homage to a German silent film.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger – The Art of Bodybuilding
Arnold Schwarzenegger, presented here as a living work of art, gives his vision on classical sculpture, body and mind, ideal beauty and more.
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Missing Time
A film that explores history through memory and its lapses. From hypnosis to decolonisation, this is a braided tale of gaps and missing time.
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 2019
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2020
- Length
- 8"
- Medium/Format
- DCP
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