Frozen War (Hotel Diaries 1)
Reacting to a frozen BBC broadcast on the night of NATO’s bombing of Afghanistan in 2001, John Smith launches into a stream of thoughts while pouring over the television set in his hotel room. His sardonic, drawling monologue conveys all at once an anxiety at the interruption of media-induced fear, an anomie created by a double distance from the state of the world and an irritation at the second-most useless piece of furniture in his room.
– Srikanth Srinivasan
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. -
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. -
Am I Human?
Lou hurls images of herself against torrents of loading files, digital code and media imagery. -
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
- Countries of production
- Ireland, United Kingdom
- Year
- 2001
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2024
- Length
- 11'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
