Am I Mourning What I Never Lost?
In this tightly packed, provocative vignette, R. James Edwards, born Deaf, wonders why he needs to apologise for his disability. Medical and psychological institutions position him as lacking – a problem to all around him. The film is a caustic montage of rapid spoken word poetry also appearing in the image, photographed objects, comically vague on-screen captions, and sounds that become distorted through hearing aids. The cryptic density of this ensemble is confronting and haunting.
– Adrian Martin
Also in this combined programme
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Transformation by Holding Time (Landscape)
The staging of a beguiling visual paradox: photographed images gradually blot out a real landscape. -
Scrub Solo 1: Soloneliness
A dancer’s unusual motion is “scrubbed”: transformed by a stuttering manipulation of image and sound. -
Scaling
IFFR regular Mike Hoolboom offers a beguiling presentation of cinematic impermanence in photographic double exposure. -
Smoke & Mirrors
Artist Tris Vonna-Michell delivers a free-associative monologue about audiovisual archives and personal experiences. -
The Ghost of Wittgenstein
A little Wittgenstein goes a long way in this playful tussle of words and images. -
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Virtual Spectres
A digitally animated, sci-fi warning about digital living through screens, trapped in technological hell. -
Late August 1993
Old, degraded video footage is manually manipulated in playback, revealing wonders of deformation and abstraction. -
(for once I dreamed of you)
A dreamlike reverie takes motifs from Romantic poetry (nature, light, loss), subjecting them to fragmentation.
Film details
- Country of production
- Canada
- Year
- 2026
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2026
- Length
- 3'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
Shows of "Am I Mourning What I Never Lost?"
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KINO 3
This screening consists of the following films:
- Transformation by Holding Time (Landscape)
- Scrub Solo 1: Soloneliness
- Scaling
- Smoke & Mirrors
- The Ghost of Wittgenstein
- Black Strangers
- Am I Mourning What I Never Lost?
- Virtual Spectres
- Late August 1993
- (for once I dreamed of you)
In-personwith Q&ASoon available -
KINO 3
This screening consists of the following films:
- Transformation by Holding Time (Landscape)
- Scrub Solo 1: Soloneliness
- Scaling
- Smoke & Mirrors
- The Ghost of Wittgenstein
- Black Strangers
- Am I Mourning What I Never Lost?
- Virtual Spectres
- Late August 1993
- (for once I dreamed of you)
In-personwith Q&ASoon available