Image Technology Echoes
Two people examine a painting. They converse dryly about it, but their interior life reveals impetuous responses.
9'
Ireland
IFFR 2021
“What does a hangman think about when he goes home at night from work?” is the opening line of American Carl Sandburg’s 1922 poem ‘The Hangman at Home’. The latter is what animators and immersive artists Michelle and Uri Kranot’s eponymous VR installation is loosely based on, and it won them a Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival.
Users start the story by striking a virtual match. A small room provides access (through door, window, hearth) to spaces with five stories. Five monologues from people at turning points in their lives. These miniature theatres were hand-painted, frame by frame – static, yet lively. Small dioramas that invite you to come closer, but not too close. The work questions sometimes disconcerting human intimacy and the boundary between viewer, witness and accomplice. Screens together with Image Technology Echoes within VR: Interior Motifs, Wed 2 to Sun 6 June, 09:45-22:00, WORM UBIK, €12.
IFFR 2021
Two people examine a painting. They converse dryly about it, but their interior life reveals impetuous responses.
9'
Ireland
IFFR 2021
Programme IFFR 2021
An adventurous and multi-disciplinary section that expands the realm of cinema to installations, exhibitions and live performance.
Still: To Miss the Ending
Read more about this programmeFive people in wonderfully hand-painted dioramas tell their life stories. Where does the boundary between viewer and accomplice lie?
25'
Denmark
IFFR 2021
Two people examine a painting. They converse dryly about it, but their interior life reveals impetuous responses.
9'
Ireland
IFFR 2021
A memory palace full of deeply buried African history reveals itself in a Congolese uranium mine.
15'
South Africa
IFFR 2021