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
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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Am I Mourning What I Never Lost?
A biting, stylised reflection on the experience of being Deaf in a bureaucratic, medicalised world. -
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.
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Film details
- Country of production
- Canada
- Year
- 2025
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2026
- Length
- 6'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
Shows of "(for once I dreamed of you)"
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AvailableVideo on demandPress & Industry
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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&A -
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-person