Ceuta's Gate
Vivid reconstruction of discordant border between Morocco and Spanish exclave Ceuta, where thousands try to smuggle in cheap goods daily.
20'
France
IFFR 2020
Atong Atem is a South Sudanese artist living in Melbourne. Born in Ethiopia,
she spent her first years in Kenya's Kakuma refugee camp before moving to Australia as a child. Her work explores migrant narratives, postcolonial practices in the diaspora, the relationship between public and private spaces and identity through portraiture.
IFFR 2020
- 6'
- Australia
- 2019
- Director
- Atong Atem
- Premiere
- International premiere
- Country of production
- Australia
- Year
- 2019
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2020
- Length
- 6'
- Medium
- DCP
- Language
- English
- Producer
- Mark Williams
- Production Company
- CIRCUIT Artist Film and Video Aotearoa New Zealand
- Sales
- CIRCUIT Artist Film and Video Aotearoa New Zealand
- Screenplay
- Atong Atem
- Cinematography
- Atong Atem
- Editor
- Atong Atem
- Sound Design
- Atong Atem
Also in this combined programme
Forget Alberto for Now
A film crew uses pigeons, goldfish and caged plants to tell a refugee's story. But is it theirs to tell?
19'
Germany
IFFR 2020
Matata
A photo shoot takes an unexpected turn, spiralling into dance-inspired dreamscapes. Matata flirts with liberation, away from the colonial gaze.
37'
Congo-Kinshasa
IFFR 2020
- Director
- Atong Atem
- Premiere
- International premiere
- Country of production
- Australia
- Year
- 2019
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2020
- Length
- 6'
- Medium
- DCP
- Language
- English
- Producer
- Mark Williams
- Production Company
- CIRCUIT Artist Film and Video Aotearoa New Zealand
- Sales
- CIRCUIT Artist Film and Video Aotearoa New Zealand
- Screenplay
- Atong Atem
- Cinematography
- Atong Atem
- Editor
- Atong Atem
- Sound Design
- Atong Atem
Programme IFFR 2020
Bright Future Short
Experimental and artists' short films, including sound//vision with live A/V performances.
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Mysterious miniature about the reproduction of contaminated, screen-printed images as patches on a woman's clothing; with melancholy audio collage.
4'
Colombia
IFFR 2020
American International Pictures
Screened in 16mm, this experimental travelogue is quintessentially Vivian Ostrovsky, exploring themes of transit and movement in a dreamy style.
5'
France
IFFR 2020
Arnold Schwarzenegger – The Art of Bodybuilding
Arnold Schwarzenegger, presented here as a living work of art, gives his vision on classical sculpture, body and mind, ideal beauty and more.
8'
Netherlands
IFFR 2020