The Strange But Unknown Star
A ten-year-old girl dressed as a 1920s star gives a performance. She wears a rubber mask, sits in a large, red armchair, and reads magazines that revive actresses from the past. Annette Hanshaw sings in the background. Marlene Dietrich is bombarded with egg, chocolate powder, powdered sugar and currants. (Eye)
Also in this combined programme
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Morte dell’arcivescovo
Experimental recreation of the opening scene from Gillo Pontecorvo’s unmade film about the assassination of Salvadorian Archbishop Oscar Romero. -
Batagur Baska
Digital rituals in the analogue Cloud. They carry their gadgets to optimize the experience. They believe that this moment will remain unforgotten. (Li -
where i don’t meet you
Shot on Super 8 and hand processed, the film’s materiality is treated not only as a medium but also as a subject. (Vidéographe) -
Wind Music
After Scores are blown away from stands by wind from a strong fan in the wings as the orchestra tries to hold them. (AV-arkki) -
Spirit Matters
Spirit Matters is a silent monologue on the simultaneous perception of space and time. (Re:Voir) -
Waiho, Retreat
Live sound recordings from the glacier and Waiho river form the sound composition. (CIRCUIT) -
Bedding Down
In a soft pastel light, a man on horseback herds his sheep through thepicturesque mountains for rural Montana. “A twilight pastoral”. (LUX) -
Exhumation
Peeling back the shrouded image, Exhumation is a reanimation of long-lost desire. (CFMDC) -
Das Wesen der Verwandlung
The frog and the princess. Shall he change or shall he remain as he is? What does the princess desire? (imai) -
Rest Energy
Ulay and Abramovic draw a large bow and arrow, one holding each side. The arrowhead points at Abramovic’s heart. The slightest movement could be fatal -
L’état de notre urgence 4
A blurry camera probes the world around as the filmmaker elucidates our collective fears about a world in peril from behind the lens. (Collectif Jeune -
The Little White Cloud That Cried
The Little White Cloud That Cried is an explicit tribute to legendary underground filmmaker Jack Smith. (Arsenal) -
The Lamps
The Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven was a poet, artist, vaudeville performer, runaway, rabble rouser, crossdresser, and all around public provoc -
Cords (hear us and have mercy)
Lundberg has filmed the vocal cords of four singers. The song is ‘Kyrie’ from a mass written by Thomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611). (Film -
Home Stories
Müller collected the most kitschy and colourful images of disturbed housewifes in evening gowns from 1950s Hollywood melodramas and re-cut them.
Film details
- Country of production
- Netherlands
- Year
- 1969
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2020
- Length
- 8'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
