A lyrical work from deep within the tradition of American poetic cinema, Sharon Couzin’s Roseblood can only weakly be described as a ‘dance film’. While Carolyn Chave Kaplan’s body is often in motion, her gestures are fragmented and reassembled by the full resources of cinematic language: editing, freezing, superimposition, colour, and a musical collage including Stockhausen and Enesco. With allusions to Maya Deren, Couzin conjures a female figure asserting its presence within a vibrant world.
– 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. -
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
- 1974
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2026
- Length
- 8'
- Medium/Format
- Digital
