A film of multiple layers, investigating the idea of skin and the effects of time and light upon it. Not only human skin, but also the ‘film skin’ itself – the celluloid strip of images. Filmmaker Vicky Smith talks to her mother Ann, films the pores of her body in extreme close-up, and compares these images to the beach photographs of yesteryear. Skin ages, burns and flakes: how to cope with these erosive but inevitable processes?
– 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. -
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
- United Kingdom
- Year
- 2021
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2026
- Length
- 7'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
