Signals: Regained
Overzicht van films
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The Vanity Tables of Douglas Sirk
Mark Rappaport | 11' | France | World premiere
In this video essay, Rappaport zooms in on the dressing table and the special place it occupies in the universe of Sirk, master of the… -
Venice Pier
Gary Beydler | 16' | USA | None
A breathtaking and achingly humble film in which a year’s worth of non-chronological imagery shot down the entire length of Venice Pier is presented, -
Venusville
Chris Langdon, Fred Worden | 10' | USA | None
The two filmmakers had a bet: how easily can you tell the difference between a moving image of a still object, and a freeze frame… -
Village, Silenced
Deborah Stratman | 5' | USA | International premiere
Focus in this short remake is on how sound is used as a means of social control, and the larger historical implications of repetition. -
Voulez-vous coucher avec God?
Michael Hirsh, Jack Christie | 69' | Canada | International premiere
A racist, sexist, war-hungry God sends a choirboy from Hashish Seventh Heaven down to earth to become President. Experimental film combining 1960s roc -
Le voyage dans la lune
Georges Méliès | 14' | France | None
The first science fiction film ever (from 1902!) has been restored and can now be seen in colour. Screened together with The Extraordinary Voyage. -
Le voyage extraordinaire
Serge Bromberg, Eric Lange | 65' | France | None
After more than a century, Méliès fans can see his iconic ATrip to the Moon as a coloured spectacle again. A playful documentary on one… -
Waiting for Sancho
Mark Peranson | 105' | Canada | None
With this title referring to Beckett, VIFF programmer and director Mark Peranson sketches the evolution of Albert Serra’s masterful El cant dell ocell -
Warum wir Männer die Technik so Lieben
Stefaan Decostere | 65' | Belgium | None
A 1985 documentary about the close relation between war and technology. Since then it has only become more intensified. The remake became an installat -
What an Excellent Day for an Exorcism
Pablo Sigg | 3' | Mexico | -
This small monitor work invites us to mentally step into the frame of the famous bedroom where Linda Blair was confronted with the priests in… -
What Do You Want from Me? (I Asked You a Thousand Times)
Savage | 23' | United Kingdom | -
In a particularly insistent demonstration of supercut montage, the existential question is sampled more than 300 times from mainstream movies. -
Where Is the Black Beast
Simon Lee, Algis Antanas Kizys | 35' | USA | None
A filmic interpretation of Ted Hughes’ poetry, using only discarded photographs. With music by Algis Kizys (e.g. Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Glenn Br