A little Ludwig Wittgenstein goes a long way. The philosopher mused on the relation between words and things and developed a ‘picture theory of language’. Ira Schneider (1943–2022) here playfully illustrates the theory with the help of psychedelic imagery, jazz tracks, and a circular voice-over conversation by two hipsters referring to a guy we often see… or do we? A conceptual film about transformation that ends with: “You think it’s jive, man?”
– 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. -
Smoke & Mirrors
Artist Tris Vonna-Michell delivers a free-associative monologue about audiovisual archives and personal experiences. -
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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
- USA
- Year
- 1968
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2026
- Length
- 9'
- Medium/Format
- Digital
Shows of "The Ghost of Wittgenstein"
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KINO 3
This screening consists of the following films:
- Transformation by Holding Time (Landscape)
- Scrub Solo 1: Soloneliness
- Scaling
- Smoke & Mirrors
- The Ghost of Wittgenstein
- Black Strangers
- Am I Mourning What I Never Lost?
- Virtual Spectres
- Late August 1993
- (for once I dreamed of you)
In-personwith Q&ASoon available -
KINO 3
This screening consists of the following films:
- Transformation by Holding Time (Landscape)
- Scrub Solo 1: Soloneliness
- Scaling
- Smoke & Mirrors
- The Ghost of Wittgenstein
- Black Strangers
- Am I Mourning What I Never Lost?
- Virtual Spectres
- Late August 1993
- (for once I dreamed of you)
In-personwith Q&ASoon available