The Sky Is on Fire presents a hypothetical digital ruin of a virtual Miami street. This lifeless world resonates with the monologue of a Miami resident who reflects on the desire for immortality that drives our need to capture everything in an image. A critical reflection on our hypermediatised reality.
Also in this combined programme
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La forêt de l’espace
A few men, sent onto the Moon to cultivate it, are waiting for the arrival of the Earthlings. But who are they?
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Solar Echoes
Impressively structured ‘science’ film links images of a thermal solar-energy plant to ideas on entropy, energy and time.
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M.A.G.N.E.T
Imagining an uncanny scenario where the gravitational pull strengthens, Basim Magdy poetically ruminates on our planet’s possible future.
Film details
- Country of production
- Belgium
- Year
- 2019
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2020
- Length
- 15"
- Medium/Format
- DCP
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