A lyrical, impressionistic portrait of Manhattan, partly shot in Kinemacolor, a process that was used in 1915 to obtain colours from black-and-white stock by filming and projecting through synchronised red and green filters. Buildings, parks, sign boards and shop windows dotting the landscape, captured with a roving hand-held camera, dip into and out of abstraction, pulsating with chromatic energy and embodying the whirling sensation of being in a city of colours.
– Srikanth Srinivasan
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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. -
God Moves on the Water
Céline Dion sings praise of God’s implacable wrath in this mischievous media remix. -
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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. -
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
- USA
- Year
- 1995
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2024
- Length
- 4'
- Medium/Format
- 16mm
