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shifting bodies to fluid fiction

shifting bodies to fluid fiction

| IFFR 2025

Curves, angles, creases; bending, grazing, rubbing. In this striking Super8 short, filmmaker Daniela Gutmann artfully turns cinema’s typical erotic gaze on its head, creating an exhilarating exploration of the naked body. Featuring gorgeous interplay of shimmering light and cast shadow, and miraculously evoking all the senses despite being purely visual, this experimental film marks a renewed conception of how bodies reach and meld into one another – at once liberating, beguiling, and playful.

– Sophie Tupholme

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Short & Mid-length
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Furyu

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Blushing Phantom

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Short & Mid-length
Persistence & Loss

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Short & Mid-length
Metabolism

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Short & Mid-length
Wild Girl

Wild Girl is a fierce fragment of frames portraying a dancer obscured by celluloid decay.
Short & Mid-length
Fort Garry Lions Pool

Echoes of splashing, shadows of faces: two women visit a public pool in this disquieting short.
Short & Mid-length