Now you see them, now you don’t: down go the ancient Douglas Firs in these Canadian forests – as quickly as the images of them flash before your eyes. These strobing historical images accompany archival audio, juxtaposing the modern industries of logging and early cinema. It’s deforestation modernising accompanied with the primitive magic of the movie camera: a trick of the light in plain sight.
– Callum McLean
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.
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Blushing Phantom
Exploring the margins of camouflage, this experimental collage melds transcendent dance with hallucinatory digital animation.
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Still Lives
Still life awakens in this experimental stop motion vignette about the mundane challenges of modernity.
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Metabolism
A thought-provoking documentary that briefly observes consumption-oriented industrialisation from farm to table.
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shifting bodies to fluid fiction
A harmoniously erotic and essential exploration of where one body ends, and another begins.
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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
- Canada
- Year
- 2021
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2025
- Length
- 3"
- Medium/Format
- DCP
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