Productivity, optimisation, constant forward motion. In this experimental short from artist and filmmaker Lisa Freeman, frenetic camerawork and quickfire editing convey the body’s lacklustre requirement to always be working in our capitalist society. Using glimpses of concrete environments, bodies on treadmills, crash-test dummies, and other ubiquitous urban images, and melding these with a soundscape of ragged breathing and disjointed conversations, Hook, Spill, Cry Your Eyes Out provides a cutting commentary on what our society inflates with importance.
– Sophie Tupholme
Also in this combined programme
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Acting Woman
Two women’s pose for a glamour shot morphs into a conspicuously aching feat of endurance. -
El striptease de mi abuela
An intimate portrait of the filmmaker’s grandmother prompts reflections about the body, old age, touch. -
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salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears
A poem with three narrators: a teardrop, a droplet of blood and a bead of sweat. -
Go West Young Man
A 1990s video art classic, interrogating racial and gender stereotypes through generational conversation and montage. -
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2020
What was lost when the 2020 pandemic’s mask-wearing regulations estranged our mouths from our bodies? -
CURRENCY
The body boldly challenges its attachment to history and economy in this luminous sonic short. -
Film details
- Country of production
- Ireland
- Year
- 2020
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2025
- Length
- 3'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
