Can’t Help Myself
Can't Help Myself
A social contradiction is encapsulated in the opening image: a woman sunbathing on a rooftop is revealed to be located, incongruously, right above a busy office in Riga. Then the action shifts to a beach, where the same tension is evident: work is repetitive and unglamorous, while a self-help audio promises peace and contentment.
Anna Ansone’s poignant, witty portrait asks: what’s the point of such fantasy in a world that forbids us to change?
– Adrian Martin
Also in this combined programme
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Issues with My Other Half
Dividing the body and the tools it uses: Anna Vasof’s neo-Švankmajer avalanche of digital gags.
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Conviértete en quien eres
The unassuming, poetic portrait of a domestic space during pandemic times: a rotoscopic, yin-yang dance.
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Lingua morta
Ruggirello’s absurdist cross between cinema and sculpture is a slapstick comedy made with strange objects.
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La voz rosa
A process of learning where empathy and self-awareness are intertwined in a beautiful feminine-universe fresco.
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Film details
- Country of production
- Latvia
- Year
- 2022
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2023
- Length
- 19"
- Medium/Format
- DCP
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