Blank Photograph
Hsu Che-yu blends digitally animated crime scenes with the tale of Taiwanese terrorist Yung Ru-Men.
20'
Taiwan
IFFR 2023
The sight of abandoned urban ruins is ubiquitous in contemporary cinema and art – especially since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Porcupine evokes the fragmented tale of a young man who breaks into an empty hospital to set up his online broadcast of poses and provocations; his audience includes real-life participants with anonymous tags like 'bigballnz' and 'romeoazteca'. Porcupine is a sombre but hypnotic portrait with glimpses of human compassion.
– Adrian Martin
Nicolas Graux, Trương Minh Quý
IFFR 2023
- 13'
- Belgium
- 2023
- Directors
- Nicolas Graux, Trương Minh Quý
- Premiere
- World premiere
- Countries of production
- Belgium, Vietnam, Singapore
- Year
- 2023
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2023
- Length
- 13'
- Medium
- DCP
- Original title
- Nhím
- Languages
- English, French, Vietnamese
- Producer
- Julie Freres
- Production Company
- Derives
- Sales
- Kino Rebelde
- Screenplay
- Nicolas Graux, Trương Minh Quý
- Cinematography
- Thomas Schira
- Editor
- Minh Chương
- Sound Design
- Arnaud Soulier
- Cast
- Trương Minh Quý, Nicole Bonew, Anne-Marie Loop
Also in this combined programme
Escasso
‘Professional dog walker’ Rose invites a film crew to tour the home she has been squatting.
15'
Brazil
IFFR 2023
Now I’m in the Kitchen
An impressionistic animation conjuring kitchen culture and the distance between a Chinese mother and an American daughter.
5'
United States
IFFR 2023
One Home to Another
Dominique van Olm combines home movie footage from her Dutch grandfather with contemporary, poetic images.
10'
Netherlands
IFFR 2023
- Directors
- Nicolas Graux, Trương Minh Quý
- Premiere
- World premiere
- Countries of production
- Belgium, Vietnam, Singapore
- Year
- 2023
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2023
- Length
- 13'
- Medium
- DCP
- Original title
- Nhím
- Languages
- English, French, Vietnamese
- Producer
- Julie Freres
- Production Company
- Derives
- Sales
- Kino Rebelde
- Screenplay
- Nicolas Graux, Trương Minh Quý
- Cinematography
- Thomas Schira
- Editor
- Minh Chương
- Sound Design
- Arnaud Soulier
- Cast
- Trương Minh Quý, Nicole Bonew, Anne-Marie Loop
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