You think films today are slow and minimal? Get back to the pure avant-garde with Larry Gottheim’s silent, single-take record of a bowl of blueberries in milk disappearing. Light, colour, action, time – all the essential elements of cinema are here. He has said it’s his “first real film; all the others rise out of this one.” Hang on for the dazzling shock ending, courtesy of the end of the camera reel.
– 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. -
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
- 1970
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2023
- Length
- 9'
- Medium/Format
- Digital
