Veteran experimental artist Peter Rose’s Omen richly alternates highly treated images of the natural world and of the human, built environment – both streams shrouded in dread. Where nature often appears scarred by the passing shadows of civilisation, the built structures are dark, subterranean passages intermittently illuminated by a skittering torch. Giacinto Scelsi’s ominous music provides the perfect accompaniment.
– 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. -
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. -
gestures toward Plant Vision
Can plants see? A lyrical cinematographic evocation of how plants are photo-sensitive to light. -
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
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 2000
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2026
- Length
- 11'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
