A work of strange, almost perverse sensuality, accompanied by an alluring soundtrack of synthesisers, organised in clusters of analogies and contrasts between colours and shapes. Skin and shell, human and animal, cells and bubbles, trails and cracks, ripples and wrinkles, particles and reflections, soft and hard, viscous and crystal, a hand caressing a handsome male body and the unforgettable texture of a snail…
– Cristina Álvarez López
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. -
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
- Japan
- Year
- 1980
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2023
- Length
- 10'
- Medium/Format
- Digital
