It’s a deceivingly simple clash of image and music: You are so beautiful counterposes the Joe Cocker song of the same name with a much less accessible visual. The beautiful woman in question is immediately blocked from view by a man’s hand, which slowly approaches the camera until it blocks the entire field of view. Quite literally obscurantist, it’s a playful provocation and a sharp, ironic audio-visual quip.
– Callum McLean
Also in this combined programme
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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 -
Still Lives
Still life awakens in this experimental stop motion vignette about the mundane challenges of modernity. -
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.
Film details
- Country of production
- Netherlands
- Year
- 1975
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2025
- Length
- 4'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
