Two men approach a pair of escalators; each boards a separate one, forming an uncanny mirroring effect. This final shot of USSA sums up the film, which juxtaposes images and languages of USSR, USA and elsewhere in order to stress not differences but similarities. Military rituals; identical street fixtures or architectural facades multiplying in a serial progression; the zombie-like gestures of the civilian masses: all are alike. Featuring an inventive soundtrack montage by Marie-Catherine Miqueau.
– Adrian Martin
Also in this combined programme
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Introduction to Humanities
A film teacher begins her class with a fun camera exercise involving all the students. -
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. -
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
- France
- Year
- 1985
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2024
- Length
- 12'
- Medium/Format
- 16mm
