Porcupine
Nhím
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
Also in this combined programme
-
Blank Photograph
Hsu Che-yu blends digitally animated crime scenes with the tale of Taiwanese terrorist Yung Ru-Men. -
Now I’m in the Kitchen
An impressionistic animation conjuring kitchen culture and the distance between a Chinese mother and an American daughter. -
One Home to Another
Dominique van Olm combines home movie footage from her Dutch grandfather with contemporary, poetic images. -
Trailer
Skip embedded content of YouTube
This content is available after accepting the marketing cookies.
Embedded content of YouTube skipped.
Film details
- Countries of production
- Belgium, Singapore, Vietnam
- Year
- 2023
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2023
- Length
- 13'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
