The work of Swedish-based British artist Tris Vonna-Michell crosses film, photography, performance, writing and installation. His subject matter is as deliberately hard to pin down as his combination of media. Smoke & Mirrors proceeds by verbal and visual free association, as Vonna-Michell, sitting in the ‘fabricated grotto’ of a sauna, recollects both his difficult acquisition of a defunct audiovisual company’s inventory, and the many cultural and personal memories this archive triggers within him.
– 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. -
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
- Sweden
- Year
- 2017
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2026
- Length
- 8'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
