Blueprint of a Pleasure Machine
A metaphysical Indian movie mystery animated with elements found in a museum's film paraphernalia collection.
10'
India
IFFR 2023
In 2022, IFFR premiered Infinity According to Florian, Oleksiy Radynski’s essay on the late Ukrainian polymath Florian Yuriev. As a creative coda, Radynski curatorially prepared one of Yuriev’s unfinished films for this edition, Film Dedicated to Water and Trees, a reverie on nature and shadows.
– Olaf Möller
IFFR 2023
- 14'
- Ukraine
- 2023
- Director
- Florian Yuriev
- Premiere
- World premiere
- Country of production
- Ukraine
- Year
- 2023
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2023
- Length
- 14'
- Medium
- DCP
- Original title
- Фільм, присвячений воді та деревам
- Language
- silent
- Producers
- Oleksiy Radynski, Lyuba Knorozok
- Sales
- Oleksiy Radynski
Also in this combined programme
The Hidden Gesture. War and Melodrama in Hollywood's 30s and 40s
An elegant and thoughtful appropriated-footage essay on key images and gestures from classical Hollywood cinema.
5'
Argentina
IFFR 2023
Nitrate: To the Ghosts of the 75 Lost Philippine Silent Films (1912-1933)
An appropriated-footage trip into everything the lost Philippines' silent cinema might have been.
62'
Philippines
IFFR 2023
- Director
- Florian Yuriev
- Premiere
- World premiere
- Country of production
- Ukraine
- Year
- 2023
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2023
- Length
- 14'
- Medium
- DCP
- Original title
- Фільм, присвячений воді та деревам
- Language
- silent
- Producers
- Oleksiy Radynski, Lyuba Knorozok
- Sales
- Oleksiy Radynski
Programme IFFR 2023
Cinema Regained
A sphere of collective remembrance and imagination offering restored classics, documentaries on film culture, and explorations of cinema’s heritage.
Read more about this programmeThe Age of the Barbarians
A gaudy vision of our modern age’s gruesome grimness, done as a funky picture-collage animation.
10'
Hungary
IFFR 2023
Amar Akbar Anthony
A song, dance, action, laughter and romance-packed Hindi spectacle as a paean to religious tolerance.
175'
India
IFFR 2023
Autobiography of a Princess
Little-seen teleplay on memory and displacement – perhaps the model for Ivory’s A Cooler Climate!
58'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2023