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
Nitrate: To the Ghosts of the 75 Lost Philippine Silent Films (1912-1933)
IFFR 2023
- 62'
- Philippines
- 2023
A wild ’n rowdy ode to a cinema seemingly lost forever: the Philippines’ silent-film production. What we have, though, is a plethora of research on the subject, our ideas about those works, as well as a lot of Mga Pinoy Pelikula that in one way or another surely include traces of their ancestors.
– Olaf Möller
IFFR 2023
- 62'
- Philippines
- 2023
- Director
- Khavn De La Cruz
- Premiere
- World premiere
- Countries of production
- Philippines, United Arab Emirates, Thailand
- Year
- 2023
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2023
- Length
- 62'
- Medium
- DCP
- Language
- Filipino
- Producers
- Khavn De La Cruz, Achinette Villamor, Apichatpong Weerasethakul
- Production Company
- Kamias Overground
- Sales
- Kamias Overground
- Screenplay
- Khavn De La Cruz
- Editor
- Furan Guillermo, Jet Leyco, Jason Aquino
- Sound Design
- Furan Guillermo
- Cast
- Jaime de la Rosa, Ramon Revilla, Ronald Remy, Amalia Fuentes, Susan Roces, Dante Rivero, Celia Rodriguez
Also in this combined programme
Film Dedicated to Water and Trees
An unfinished film by the late Ukrainian polymath Florian Yuriev, curatorially prepared by Oleksiy Radynski.
14'
Ukraine
IFFR 2023
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
- Director
- Khavn De La Cruz
- Premiere
- World premiere
- Countries of production
- Philippines, United Arab Emirates, Thailand
- Year
- 2023
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2023
- Length
- 62'
- Medium
- DCP
- Language
- Filipino
- Producers
- Khavn De La Cruz, Achinette Villamor, Apichatpong Weerasethakul
- Production Company
- Kamias Overground
- Sales
- Kamias Overground
- Screenplay
- Khavn De La Cruz
- Editor
- Furan Guillermo, Jet Leyco, Jason Aquino
- Sound Design
- Furan Guillermo
- Cast
- Jaime de la Rosa, Ramon Revilla, Ronald Remy, Amalia Fuentes, Susan Roces, Dante Rivero, Celia Rodriguez
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