On a bare rock by the ocean you will never hear anything but birds whose cries blend with the sound of winds
Serene natural wonder within the glass walls of a greenhouse, with volunteers creating the sounds of the tropics.
15'
Netherlands
IFFR 2023
To survive in Antarctica, both people and plants need technology. A woman works in a container greenhouse, nurturing life where it should not be. The serenity in the container forms a stark contrast with the raging forces outside.
Elisa Strinna is an Italian multimedia artist who lives both in Italy and Rotterdam. She used archival footage of the EDEN ISS project to make The Antarctic Gardener.
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– Christiaan Boesenbach
IFFR 2023
- 24'
- Netherlands
- 2022
- Director
- Elisa Strinna
- Premiere
- World premiere (festival)
- Countries of production
- Netherlands, Italy
- Year
- 2022
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2023
- Length
- 24'
- Medium
- DCP
- Language
- English
- Producer
- Elisa Strinna
- Sales
- Elisa Strinna
- Screenplay
- Elisa Strinna
- Cinematography
- Matteo Calore
- Editor
- Sabine Maas, Elisa Strinna
- Production Design
- Marianna Peruzzo
- Sound Design
- Alberto Cagol
- Music
- Nicola Sanguin
- Cast
- Maria Roveran
Also in this combined programme
Pharmakon
Myth of Persephone rebooted in a 3D-animated world. What is mortality in a virtual world?
28'
Netherlands
IFFR 2023
Sprouts of a dragon's teeth
The Greek city of Thebes is backdrop to a cinematic poem about the creation of myth.
9'
Netherlands
IFFR 2023
- Director
- Elisa Strinna
- Premiere
- World premiere (festival)
- Countries of production
- Netherlands, Italy
- Year
- 2022
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2023
- Length
- 24'
- Medium
- DCP
- Language
- English
- Producer
- Elisa Strinna
- Sales
- Elisa Strinna
- Screenplay
- Elisa Strinna
- Cinematography
- Matteo Calore
- Editor
- Sabine Maas, Elisa Strinna
- Production Design
- Marianna Peruzzo
- Sound Design
- Alberto Cagol
- Music
- Nicola Sanguin
- Cast
- Maria Roveran
Programme IFFR 2023
RTM
IFFR puts the spotlight firmly on films and makers from our city on the River Maas. The selection was made by this year's RTM curators: Cheryl Ashruf, Noemi Biro and Nizar el Manouzi. Discover a programme chock-full of short and longer films, documentaries, talks, music and performances. RTM revolves around talented artists and stories from 010 with an impact far beyond, revealing the riches of Rotterdam in all its glory.
Read more about this programmeThe Antarctic Gardener
A woman creates life where it cannot be while the forces of Antarctic nature rage all around.
24'
Netherlands
IFFR 2023
Book and Knife
Culinary shadow play, where three women and a restaurant follow various recipes to prepare soto/saoto.
15'
Netherlands
IFFR 2023
Bouw Museum Boymans
Six-episode, silent documentary about the construction of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen between 1932 and 1935.
82'
Netherlands
IFFR 2023