What if the contemporary world could be reimagined by the objects of antiquity? Elli Vuorinen’s Still Lives is a stop-motion animation that interrogates this concept, creating portraits of ourselves that are animated to reflect the conditions of modernity. Museum artefacts including wooden models, painted figures on Ancient Greek vases, and a prehistoric statue, assume human form as they mimic the chaos of modernity, zeroing in on mundane activities and beckoning questions of existentialism.
– 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 -
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. -
Fort Garry Lions Pool
Echoes of splashing, shadows of faces: two women visit a public pool in this disquieting short.
Trailer
https://youtu.be/MmOpvVD50VsFilm details
- Country of production
- Finland
- Year
- 2019
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2025
- Length
- 6'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
