The main protagonist of the film is a tortoise; an ancient animal that embodies Cura, the Roman goddess of care, voiced by American vocalist Joan La Barbara. The setting is Richard and Dion Neutra’s VDL Research House II in Los Angeles. Architect Neutra carefully designed his projects to elicit human sensory and emotional responses.
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Blue Honda Civic
Did you notice that blue car at the side of the road? A minimalistic road movie that mirrors the emotions of the driver through a… -
Murmuring Debris and Leaves Silently Fall
A visual exploration of the abandoned site of the former Armed Forces’ Hospital in Gwangju, South Korea, through rubble, dust, weeds and one human bod -
Creatura dove vai?
Southern Italy, sometime in the past. An old peasant woman receives a mysterious instruction from a Saint to make a pilgrimage to an unknown destinati -
I will make up a song and sing it in a theatre with the night air above my head.
This film, made from digital stills, evokes the utopian project of Egypt’s only modernist architect Hassan Fathy, a man committed to ecology and susta
Film details
- Countries of production
- France, USA
- Year
- 2020
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2020
- Length
- 17'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
