Bill Morrison is renowned for his resuscitation of archival film, and the revival of history is increasingly prominent in his oeuvre. Wild Girl is an energetic Kodak strip from the 1917 film of the same name, starring ‘The Queen of Vaudeville,’ entertainer Eva Tanguay. The digitised amber remnant is embellished with coral-like decomposition, popping zealously across the screen and materialising in tandem with the dancer’s movements.
– 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.
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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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Persistence & Loss
Strobing images of logging compose this hypnotic palimpsest of deforestation and movie magic
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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
- USA
- Year
- 2021
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2025
- Length
- 6"
- Medium/Format
- DCP
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