Metabolism is a creative study of technology and its place in society, presented as a cinematic triptych; an engineer revives a robotic arm, robots work as farmers on a dairy farm feeding, milking and cleaning cows, while in Amsterdam they replace waiters in a bustling restaurant. Misho Antadze renders this think-piece as a quiet observation on the mechanisation of labour where humans are obviously absent and technology is ever-evolving.
– Olivia Hărşan
Also in this combined programme
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You are so beautiful
This playful clash of image and music blocks the titular beautiful woman from view. -
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Furyu
Japanese artist Awazu Kiyoshi’s 1972 experimental short uses shadow and movement to convey fleeting beauty. -
Blushing Phantom
Exploring the margins of camouflage, this experimental collage melds transcendent dance with hallucinatory digital animation. -
Persistence & Loss
Strobing images of logging compose this hypnotic palimpsest of deforestation and movie magic -
Still Lives
Still life awakens in this experimental stop motion vignette about the mundane challenges of modernity. -
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shifting bodies to fluid fiction
A harmoniously erotic and essential exploration of where one body ends, and another begins. -
Fort Garry Lions Pool
Echoes of splashing, shadows of faces: two women visit a public pool in this disquieting short.
Film details
- Country of production
- Netherlands
- Year
- 2023
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2025
- Length
- 12'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
