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arc | USA | 2017 | 8' |

| IFFR 2023

“…to be human we need to experience the end of the world. We need to lose the world, to lose a world, and to discover that there is more than one world and that the world isn’t what we think it is. Without that, we know nothing about the mortality and immortality we carry.” – Hélène Cixous

Ook in dit verzamelprogramma

breathing
Focus: arc
The projector is the machine whirring back to us, the mechanics of the camera reflecting on the rhythms of automated labour.
hexagram
Focus: arc
The occurrence of chance collisions in form through the intervention of the xerox machine on emulsion-less film.
window
Focus: arc
Colour, light and sound in contrapuntal layers of patterns and rhythm.
katabasis
Focus: arc
A parallel descent/ascent/descent in search of a miraculous unknown.
infinite column
Focus: arc
“…to perceive the shape of light which has been stretched forth.” – The Chaldean Oracles