Is the black mass at the heart of The Clearing gradually filling the frame of this enigmatic short film with meaning? Or is it a growing, but still empty void, clearing out the picture and rendering the film an all-encompassing nothingness? Turning charcoal drawings into digitally processed imagery, Rotterdam-based visual artist Marco Douma creates what he describes as an “indefinable space.” Assisted by co-director Roel Meelkop’s stretched-out abstract music, The Clearing becomes a haunting reflection on how space and time fold into each other.
– Hugo Emmerzael
Also in this combined programme
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Martyrs of the Anthropocene
This short, experimental animation questions the relationships between nature and people in the Anthropocene. -
Film details
- Country of production
- Netherlands
- Year
- 2024
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2024
- Length
- 8'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
