Words Words Words Are Decorative Sounds
This video investigates the complex relationship between language and cultural identity in our contemporary times. The starting point is the artist’s recollection of learning English: words, memories and images merge with artificial landscapes, and flow in vague yet coherent sequences that feel as natural and unsettling as a dream.
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the destructors
Muslim youth of Brexit Britain share their painful experiences of discrimination in this powerful two-screen film, demanding for them to be heard.<
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Private Properties
A living room shrinks only to expand again in this morphing animation with skilful line work. A forensic study of a private space.
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At Home But Not at Home
A personal exploration of identity, liberation and the diaspora from the shores of Goa to Mozambique and Angola.
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Houses (for Margaret)
Loving, 16mm ode to Scottish poet and avant-garde filmmaker Margaret Tait. Fowler circles her home on Orkney, zooming in on her notebooks.
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As Far as We Could Get
Switching back and forth between two antipodal cities, filmmaker Iván Argote digs an imaginary tunnel between Indonesia and Colombia.
Film details
- Countries of production
- Italy, Netherlands
- Year
- 2020
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2020
- Length
- 8"
- Medium/Format
- DCP
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