Transformation by Holding Time (Landscape)
Paul de Nooijer is a Dutch artist celebrated for his exploration of “staged photography”. This film organises one of his familiar visual paradoxes: within a landscape, a Polaroid camera pointed toward reflective glass takes pictures of itself – images which are then assembled piece by piece on the glass surface by the filmmaker, all in a single take, until the entire scene is blotted out. What matters more: real space or the mosaic of reflexive photographs?
– Adrian Martin
Also in this combined programme
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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. -
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
- Netherlands
- Year
- 1976
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2026
- Length
- 3'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
