Yifan Jiang and James Mercer’s visual and thematic style amalgamates disparate worlds, pairing painted canvases with glitchy Windows 95 animation to tell the story of a homecoming student stranded on a volcanic shoreline in a modern folkloric fable. Vacation gently contemplates the dual wonder and conflict of the ecological and technological, with anthropomorphic animals guiding the protagonist on his journey as he abandons the familiar modern civilisation and enters a world in service of nature.
– Ol Marin
Also in this combined programme
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Horror Vacui
Observational meditation on growing militarisation of today’s society shot by acclaimed experimental documentary filmmaker, Boris Poljak. -
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 2022
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2023
- Length
- 25'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
