Can't Help Myself
Unglamorous beach work in Riga is poignantly juxtaposed with the extravagant promises of self-help gurus.
19'
Latvia
IFFR 2023
A change of scenery from street life to an intimate interior, but still in classic Jaap Pieters form, Haar handen is a single shot taking up the entirety of one Super 8mm film role, this time in black and white. Shot from above, this silent meditation on a woman's fingers as they gracefully move with agility over her computer keyboard disembodies an act we are all so familiar with to reshape it into something quite abstract.
– Cristina Kolozsvary-Kiss
IFFR 2023
- 3'
- Netherlands
- 2023
- Director
- Jaap Pieters
- Premiere
- World premiere
- Country of production
- Netherlands
- Year
- 2023
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2023
- Length
- 3'
- Medium
- 35mm
- Language
- no dialogue
- Producer
- Jaap Pieters
- Sales
- Jaap Pieters
Also in this combined programme
Conviértete en quien eres
The unassuming, poetic portrait of a domestic space during pandemic times: a rotoscopic, yin-yang dance.
11'
Argentina
IFFR 2023
Issues with My Other Half
Dividing the body and the tools it uses: Anna Vasof’s neo-Švankmajer avalanche of digital gags.
6'
Austria
IFFR 2023
Lingua morta
Ruggirello’s absurdist cross between cinema and sculpture is a slapstick comedy made with strange objects.
10'
France
IFFR 2023
- Director
- Jaap Pieters
- Premiere
- World premiere
- Country of production
- Netherlands
- Year
- 2023
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2023
- Length
- 3'
- Medium
- 35mm
- Language
- no dialogue
- Producer
- Jaap Pieters
- Sales
- Jaap Pieters
Programme IFFR 2023
Short & Mid-length
Just as long as it takes. The Short & Mid-length film programme offers a unique showcase of films under 63 minutes.
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An affecting meditation on the pain experienced by refugees forced to live in limbo.
12'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2023
3 Lieder
Timeless, silent film vignettes based on songs from Robert Schumann’s Dichterliebe. A tribute to early film.
7'
Germany
IFFR 2023
3 Peonies
Flowers are stuck down and covered by tape: a wry comment on 20th-century modernist art.
3'
United States
IFFR 2023