Razor Head is an unearthed ceremony of homoeroticism exhibiting an unrestrained medley of Levi’s jeans, tattooed torsos and bondage paraphernalia. Tom Chomont’s experimental silent collage of exposed bodies and over-exposed 16mm frames, renders a grainy queer performance of intimacy. The seemingly ordinary act of a man getting his head and body shaved is increasingly reframed, elevated as something mystical.
– Olivia Hărşan
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.
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Hook, Spill, Cry Your Eyes Out
A headfirst rush into the capitalist, urban landscape, using dynamic camerawork and canny editing.
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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.
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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?
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CURRENCY
The body boldly challenges its attachment to history and economy in this luminous sonic short.
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Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 1984
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2025
- Length
- 6"
- Medium/Format
- 16mm
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