A woman visits the house of her friend’s mother. There, the presence of a black doll catches her attention and haunts her. Instinctively but respectfully, she tries to retrieve the doll from the house, to liberate it from its appointed function. This anecdotal story allows director Buseje Bailey to reflect on the ways in which black people are affected by visual representations that reinforce reductive ideas and stereotypical assumptions about their bodies.
– Cristina Álvarez López
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. -
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
- Canada
- Year
- 2023
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2023
- Length
- 12'
- Medium/Format
- Digital
