IFFR regular Mike Hoolboom offers a beguiling, humorous presentation of cinematic impermanence. A naked man (Hoolboom), tilted 90 degrees by the camera angle, paints a black shape on a white wall; meanwhile, in a second, superimposed image, he re-paints it in white. Our eye and mind struggle to figure out which act came first, for all positive and negative values in the frame are completely reversible.
– 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. -
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. -
Late August 1993
Old, degraded video footage is manually manipulated in playback, revealing wonders of deformation and abstraction. -
(for once I dreamed of you)
A dreamlike reverie takes motifs from Romantic poetry (nature, light, loss), subjecting them to fragmentation.
Film details
- Country of production
- Canada
- Year
- 1988
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2026
- Length
- 5'
- Medium/Format
- 16mm
