This personal short film uses a series of telephone conversations with the filmmaker’s mother as she tries to reconcile facing cancer for a fourth time. Low-fi video filmed at night captures her mother’s bond to her home, shaping the tension and isolation of living life with a terminal illness. (CFMDC)
Also in this combined programme
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American International Pictures
Screened in 16mm, this experimental travelogue is quintessentially Vivian Ostrovsky, exploring themes of transit and movement in a dreamy style.
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The Ten Commandments of Love
Two people in an impassioned embrace on an ocean pier as Harvey and the Moonglows start singing ‘Ten Commandments Of Love’. (LUX)
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deardiary.wtf
deardiary uses machine learning to answer your questions now. Just enter your innermost thoughts in the diary panel: fears, judgments, projections. (V
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Museum Guard
Unexplored aspects of everyday-life: What do guards in a museum do when they assume no one watches? A snapshot. (sixpack)
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Crush
Fleshy objects, composed of gel usually used for testing the penetrability of bullets into humans, are repeatedly crushed by a hydraulic press. (AV-ar
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Gravity
Playing with the principle of the after-image, dozens of fast-edited kissing scenes from European and American film classics collide.
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Song for Rent
Filmmaker Jack Smith also stars in this funny short film, playing the cadaverous matron Rose Courtyard (inspired by Rose Kennedy). (Light Cone)
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Santin
Grotesque, comic and mesmerizing at the same time. In what kind of cell is he kept and who is in control of the music? (LIMA)
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If I Die, Please Delete My Soundcloud
In the middle of a sleepless night a variety of digital devices provide comfort and distraction for a restless mind. But does it help? (CIRCUIT)
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Wall of Love
A video in which we meet a Swedish woman, Mrs. Berliner-Mauer, who has entered into a marriage with the Berlin Wall. (FILMFORM)
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Seize Control of the Taj Mahal
In this episode of The Brenda and Glennda Show, a group of drag queens go on a trip to Trump’s Taj Mahal Hotel Casino.(VDB)
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Where Is My Body?
This audiovisual remix tries to unveil the dogma intrinsic to the tv melodrama that the world of entertainment imposes on them. (Collectif Jeune Cin&e
Film details
- Country of production
- Canada
- Year
- 2019
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2020
- Length
- 6"
- Medium/Format
- Digital
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