In the original radio play The Machine (1968), Goethe’s poem Wanderer’s Nightsong is analysed strictly systematically in an attempt to discover the mechanics of poetry. The strength of this work is that poetry itself is more powerful than any analysis or restructuring.
What you experience is the sublime.
Also in this combined programme
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A Proposal to project in Scope
Widescreen film format CinemaScope not as a window on the world, but a sculpture in a subtle interplay of light and shadow, sun and trees. -
THORAX
Informed by Marcel Duchamp’s Anemic Cinema,THORAX is an ingenious game with dazzling light, stroboscopic flickering and matching sound. -
Making a Diagonal with Music
Short film about Argentine electro-acoustic composer Beatriz Ferreyra, a pioneer of musique concrète. Featuring creaking doors and more. -
TESTFILM #1
Telcosystems attempt to hack into digital film projection to open it to chaos and creativity. Will they find the cracks in the system? -
Further Radical
Slices of black radish on unexposed film lead to effective explosions of light right through the dark, photochemical emulsion.
Film details
- Country of production
- Netherlands
- Year
- 2020
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2020
- Length
- 16'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
