A dead lizard is toyed with; unreal, blue fingers run themselves through strands of hair… with each image of a new, enigmatic action, the soundtrack changes, ranging from stately Philip Glass to bells and chants. Kytösalmi-Buhl, a pioneer of Finnish video art, proposes to us an unusual dance choreography that goes beyond full human bodies and into a micro-universe of fragmented parts, prostheses and relational aesthetics.
– Adrian Martin
Also in this combined programme
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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. -
Per una selva oscura
The dark forest beloved of poets, cinematically recreated in a timely, materialist and apocalyptic vein. -
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
- Germany
- Year
- 1984
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2023
- Length
- 6'
- Medium/Format
- Digital
