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(for once I dreamed of you)

(for once I dreamed of you)

Kate Solar | Canada | 2025 | 6' |

| IFFR 2026

Departing from a parenthetical phrase in Christina Rossetti’s 1904 poem ‘On the Wing’, Kate Solar conjures a dark, modern, highly material form of Romanticism. A human figure gradually merges into the darkness of the woods, with only the ghostly illumination of a truck headlight; meanwhile, the celluloid image strip is worked upon with scratches, dirt and reversals of brightness and darkness. Bursts of plaintive music and glimpses of a map add to the dreamlike reverie.

– Adrian Martin

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Transformation by Holding Time (Landscape)
Short & Mid-length
The staging of a beguiling visual paradox: photographed images gradually blot out a real landscape.
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A dancer’s unusual motion is “scrubbed”: transformed by a stuttering manipulation of image and sound.
Scaling
Short & Mid-length
IFFR regular Mike Hoolboom offers a beguiling presentation of cinematic impermanence in photographic double exposure.
Smoke & Mirrors
Short & Mid-length
Artist Tris Vonna-Michell delivers a free-associative monologue about audiovisual archives and personal experiences.
The Ghost of Wittgenstein
Short & Mid-length
A little Wittgenstein goes a long way in this playful tussle of words and images.
Black Strangers
Short & Mid-length
Dan Guthrie imagines himself as the mirror of a “black stranger” who died in 1719.
Am I Mourning What I Never Lost?
Short & Mid-length
A biting, stylised reflection on the experience of being Deaf in a bureaucratic, medicalised world.
Virtual Spectres
Short & Mid-length
A digitally animated, sci-fi warning about digital living through screens, trapped in technological hell.
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Old, degraded video footage is manually manipulated in playback, revealing wonders of deformation and abstraction.