VHS Death Valley footage shot by Seoungho Cho in 1993 can be viewed only in a technically degraded state today. Cho grasps this playback as an artistic advantage: interfering bars of video static, sudden switches from colour to black-and-white, random noises generated on the soundtrack – all this can now be manually manipulated and played like a DJ mixes samples. An ode to the glory of machines!
– 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. -
(for once I dreamed of you)
A dreamlike reverie takes motifs from Romantic poetry (nature, light, loss), subjecting them to fragmentation.
Film details
- Countries of production
- USA, South Korea
- Year
- 2024
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2026
- Length
- 10'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
