Soundtrack: a radio interview about hospital conditions for the mentally ill, followed by a cover version of The Beatles’ A Day in the Life. Image track: three pink peonies are stuck to a red background with blue tape – over and over, until the flowers are invisible. A wry comment on a tendency of 20th-century modernist art to deny and erase the beauty of nature.
– Adrian Martin
Also in this combined programme
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Sinisukka 1948
An experimental dance choreography that goes beyond human bodies and into a micro-universe of relational aesthetics. -
Blues
A bowl of blueberries slowly disappears: light, colour, action, time – cinema. Gottheim’s first one-take film. -
Ultramint
A work of strange, almost perverse sensuality, organised in clusters of analogies and contrasts. -
3 Lieder
Timeless, silent film vignettes based on songs from Robert Schumann’s Dichterliebe. A tribute to early film. -
Fear Factor
A reflection on the perils triggered by cultural appropriation and stereotypical representations of black bodies. -
Per una selva oscura
The dark forest beloved of poets, cinematically recreated in a timely, materialist and apocalyptic vein. -
Kajanaqtuq
Faded Super-8 images accompany an Inuk Elder’s memories in this powerful invocation of Inuit life and mythology. -
Untitled Part 9: This Time
Images of Bamiyan in Afghanistan alternate with children telling crazy stories. A chronicle of displacement.
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 2017
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2023
- Length
- 3'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
