Gladys Lou hurls home-made images of herself against a swift torrent of loading files, digital code and the general barrage of representational media imagery saturating daily life online. The features of faces and bodies merge and split apart, ceaselessly. Human identity is caught and fixed in normative binary categories, but the ‘glitch’ strategies of artists can struggle against the system, creating new notions of rhizomatic selfhood.
– Adrian Martin
Also in this combined programme
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Introduction to Humanities
A film teacher begins her class with a fun camera exercise involving all the students. -
The Punched Tape of Life
Is everything recorded on film destined to become digital data, or does life still resist? -
No Archive Can Restore You
An exploration into the ‘sonic shadows’ that colonial moving images continue to generate. -
Frozen War (Hotel Diaries 1)
Sardonic reflections on the state of the world occasioned by a frozen news broadcast. -
Watching Words Becoming a Film (TXT.FLM #3)
Only words on screen: Asselberghs bridges political, avant-garde cinema and the ubiquitous telephone text message. -
USSA
Diaristic images of USA and USSR are inventively juxtaposed to stress not differences but similarities. -
wandering through secret storms
Images of women doing office work are mixed with redacted FBI notations. Does freedom exist? -
TV & VT-Works
A series of artistic interventions interrogating the mechanisms of television production and spectatorship. -
Dreams Under Confinement
A sobering, chilling mash-up of frantic Chicago Police audio messages with sinister Google Maps imagery.
Film details
- Country of production
- Canada
- Year
- 2022
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2024
- Length
- 2'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
