In a mischievous media remix, Erik Bünger cross-wires vastly disparate cultural responses to the 1912 sinking of the Titanic, jamming the smooth road by which history becomes popular myth. The music video for Céline Dion’s chartbuster My Heart Will Go On (1997) is manipulated and scored to Blind Willie Johnson’s gospel song God Moves on the Water (1929). Instead of an ode to eternal love, Dion now sings praise of God’s implacable wrath.
– Srikanth Srinivasan
Also in this combined programme
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Pepper Steak
Frame by frame, abstract, hand-painted images tussle with scraps of photographic representation. Which will win? -
Lost on Arrival
A heartrending portrait of a consciousness losing its connections to the past and the world. -
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Överföringsdiagram Nr 1
Destroyed books and reconstituted state documents produce new knowledge in this densely associative political essay. -
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Lanesville UFO Incident
Cheerful locals play witnesses in this humorous faux report about UFO sightings in backwoods America. -
Surface Tension #2
A lyrical, impressionistic portrait of Manhattan in Kinemacolor, presented through strobing red and green filters. -
Dossier of Tentacular
A dense, shape-shifting scrapbook of ideas exploring the mechanisms of knowledge production. -
Black Rain
Satellite images of spectacular solar phenomena, with artefacts intact, evoke the mysteries of the universe. -
Being Strong Is Hard
A barrage of images of Kurdish women activists, journalists and fighters, scored to electronic music.
Film details
- Country of production
- Germany
- Year
- 2008
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2024
- Length
- 3'
- Medium/Format
- Digital
