The dark forest beloved of poets is recreated by Lefrant in a materialist and apocalyptic vein suited to our times, and to cinema. The images move between abstract animation and representational landscape views, but a murky gloom suffuses the increasingly chaotic superimpositions. Can we any longer recognise anything that we see or hear? The natural world is lost before us.
– Adrian Martin
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. -
Fear Factor
A reflection on the perils triggered by cultural appropriation and stereotypical representations of black bodies. -
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
- France
- Year
- 2022
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2023
- Length
- 8'
- Medium/Format
- 35mm
