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Before and After Zeno

Before and After Zeno

Kai Oka | Canada | 1978 | 7' |

| IFFR 2024

Kai Oka’s magnum opus – and only sound film – takes its key cue from Italo Svevo’s 1923 axiom of modern(ist) literature, La coscienza di Zeno. One is taken on a very elliptical journey through Zeno’s life demonstrating that “…film is a comprehensive art form which can express the stream of consciousness in real time” – Kai Oka.

– Olaf Möller

Also in this combined programme

Documentary

A split screen. Simultaneous reflection and action. A woman dances, the same woman reflects on dancing.
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Stores

Inside the American Dream, a US shopping mall, in all its colours, sounds and light.
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The Sum of Perfection

Vertical shots of water and fire are woven together, till all is water.
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Blue Green

Inspired by Brakhage, the light dances as Kai Oka’s camera freely roams the countryside.
Cinema Regained
Oblivion Way

Suggestions of paradise as a young man runs and leaps through the streets.
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Camera Car

Doing the American thing: riding around in a car as a pure cinematic act.
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Around About

A 70s enigma, a free-form-film poem, Luisa Cividin moves through spaces as Roberto Taroni smokes.
Cinema Regained
Speedy life

A frantic view into Roberto Taroni and Luisa Cividin’s private life in New York.
Cinema Regained