Black Box
An innocent youth is abducted and tortured without any culpability. This seminal No Wave film is a terrifying allegory of societal repression.
21'
USA
IFFR 2020
Punk rock group Otoboke Beaver is a female quartet from Japan. This video illustrates a song from their recent album, Itekoma Hits. Are their masterful changes in rhythm and tempo ventilated anger or pure fun? The fierce garage punk track ends with whispered, eerie chanting: "GO TO HELL".
IFFR 2020
- 3'
- Japan
- 2019
- Director
- ONIONSKIN
- Country of production
- Japan
- Year
- 2019
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2020
- Length
- 3'
- Medium
- Digital
- Languages
- Japanese, English
- Producer
- Toshikazu Tamura
- Sales
- Damnably
- Editor
- ONIONSKIN
- Music
- Otoboke Beaver
Also in this combined programme
Interior Scroll
In a vast underground cave, Schneemann and seven nude women read a text as each woman slowly extracts a scroll from her vagina.
8'
USA
IFFR 2020
Menses
Women act out their own dramas in a red-filtered ritual of mutual bonding. A wry comedy on the ironic aspects of menstruation.
4'
USA
IFFR 2020
Sewing Circle
Performance artist Kembra Pfahler invited a camera to witness one of her most radical and angry gestures: sewing her vagina shut.
7'
USA
IFFR 2020
- Director
- ONIONSKIN
- Country of production
- Japan
- Year
- 2019
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2020
- Length
- 3'
- Medium
- Digital
- Languages
- Japanese, English
- Producer
- Toshikazu Tamura
- Sales
- Damnably
- Editor
- ONIONSKIN
- Music
- Otoboke Beaver
Programme IFFR 2020
Beth B: War Is Never Over
Filmmaker Beth B personally provides context to her recent portrayal of provocative artist Lydia Lunch, from the vantage point of female identity, power and sexuality.
Read more about this programmeAmnesia
A chilling cautionary tale, Amnesia is a stark and uncompromising portrayal of the escalation of xenophobic sentiment in a neo-conservative climate.
1'
USA
IFFR 2020
Barbie
Barbie returns from shopping. She takes her groceries out of the bag and takes out a little Barbie doll which she then fries and eats.
10'
USA
IFFR 2020
Belladonna
A number of somber talking heads frankly describe their most personal and perverse attitudes on sex, violence and other family matters.
13'
USA
IFFR 2020