A Bright Summer Diary
An old family photograph triggers artist Lei Lei's journey into the melancholy of memory and the muddled nature of nostalgia.
27'
USA
IFFR 2020
Ben Rivers' films study the otherworldly, looking for places and stories outside the daily conventions of reality. Look Then Below was filmed in a Somerset transformed into a coloured, mist-enveloped island in an oily ocean with a cave basking in a subterranean glow. Time seems to stand still there. After Slow Action and Urth, this is the final part of a trilogy developed with American SF author Mark von Schlegell.
See also Krabi, 2562.
Also in this combined programme
The Lost Procession
Bani Abidi emphatically presents scenes from the daily lives of the Hazara community in Quetta, Pakistan, alongside narratives of persecution and exodus.
17'
United Arab Emirates
IFFR 2020
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.
12'
Austria
IFFR 2020
- Director
- Ben Rivers
- Premiere
- World premiere (festival)
- Country of production
- United Kingdom
- Production Year
- 2019
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2020
- Length
- 22'
- Medium
- DCP
- Language
- English
- Producer
- Josephine Lanyon
- Sales
- Ben Rivers
- Screenplay
- Mark von Schlegell
- Cinematography
- Ben Rivers
- Editor
- Ben Rivers
- Sound Design
- Ben Rivers, Christina Vantzou
- Music
- Christina Vantzou
Programme IFFR 2020
Ammodo Tiger Short Competition
The power of short. Twenty-one films from the short film selection compete for one of three equal awards.
Read more about this programme3 Logical Exits
A claustrophobic sociological contemplation of the escape routes open to young Palestinians from their dead-end lives in refugee camps.
15'
Denmark
IFFR 2020
Aggregate States of Matters
Rosa Barba shows the slow disappearance of a glacier and its effect on the Quechuan population in the Andes of Peru.
18'
Peru
IFFR 2020
Apiyemiyekî?
An archive of drawings made by the Waimiri-Atroari, a people native to the Brazilian Amazon, document and narrate their encounter with 'civilised man'.
28'
Brazil
IFFR 2020