Introduction to Humanities
Silent cinema introduced an enduring and endearing format: a line of people passes, one by one, before a static camera, presenting themselves. Parker begins her film class by making the students introduce themselves to the camera and microphone. Their different actions and reactions, when strung together in quick succession, constitute a comedy of everyday manners and behaviour.
– Adrian Martin
Also in this combined programme
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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. -
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
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 1972
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2024
- Length
- 3'
- Medium/Format
- Digital
