A humorous faux report about UFO sightings in backwoods America, produced by the early video collective Videofreex for the weekly broadcast of the pirate television station Lanesville TV. Featuring giggling locals playing witnesses who can barely believe in their own testimonies, Lanesville UFO Incident is a cheerful sketch that, today, has the force of a documentary, serving as a record of a particular set of people enacting a collective fiction in a particular place and time.
– Srikanth Srinivasan
Also in this combined programme
-
Being Strong Is Hard
A barrage of images of Kurdish women activists, journalists and fighters, scored to electronic music.
-
-
God Moves on the Water
Céline Dion sings praise of God’s implacable wrath in this mischievous media remix.
-
Dossier of Tentacular
A dense, shape-shifting scrapbook of ideas exploring the mechanisms of knowledge production.
-
Lost on Arrival
A heartrending portrait of a consciousness losing its connections to the past and the world.
-
Överföringsdiagram Nr 1
Destroyed books and reconstituted state documents produce new knowledge in this densely associative political essay.
-
Surface Tension #2
A lyrical, impressionistic portrait of Manhattan in Kinemacolor, presented through strobing red and green filters.
-
Pepper Steak
Frame by frame, abstract, hand-painted images tussle with scraps of photographic representation. Which will win?
-
Black Rain
Satellite images of spectacular solar phenomena, with artefacts intact, evoke the mysteries of the universe.
-
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 1976
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2024
- Length
- 8"
- Medium/Format
- DCP
You may also like this
-
On Plains of Larger River & Woodlands
In suburban Tasmania, Imogen and Audrey reflect on isolation and explore new forms of intoxication.
-
-
Msaytbeh, the elevated place.
A deeply affecting rumination on grief, memory and what no longer feels like home.
