gestures toward Plant Vision
Can plants see? Do they have a photo-sensitive capacity? An erudite speech by Paco Calvo in the soundscape introduces this scientific controversy, and also triggers a cinematographic evocation. Sarah Abbott frames plants in relation to the light that envelops them, and the changing camera lens produces effects of blur, dazzle and sensory absorption. Is the natural world the sum of objects that we observe, or are they really active ‘subjects’ like us, processing stimuli?
– Adrian Martin
Also in this combined programme
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El sistema
In the darkness of the Mamoré River, a boat moves silently through the Bolivian rainforest. -
Omen
Veteran experimentalist Peter Rose alternates ominous views of nature scarred by civilisation and subterranean passageways. -
44 Houses
The filmmaker, accompanied by family members, revisits and records impressions of houses where she lived. -
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Verdigris
A historical, political, artistic and Situationist inquiry into the architecture of the Paris Métro system. -
A Letter from Elli
A hauntingly lyrical treatment of traces from a troubled, early 20th century life in Latvia. -
20/68 Schatzi
Master Austrian structuralist Kurt Kren moves from busy, unbridled abstraction to an ultimate pictorial shock. -
Film details
- Countries of production
- Canada, Italy
- Year
- 2021
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2026
- Length
- 10'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
