Henry Hills

Henry Hills at IFFR

• Little lieutenant

  Rapid dance film and multi-media spectacle evokes Weimar Republic to music by John Zorn.

  • main programme
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  Electricity

  The festive pursuit of European trams. In the great avant-garde tradition of the city symphony. The song of old modernism.

  • Still 16
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  Notes on Marie Menken

  Diary like portrait in which friends reminisce about the grand old lady of the American avant-garde: Marie Menken (1909-1970). She inspired artists su

  • Cinema Regained
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  Failed States

  A meditation on the self-destructive final sprint of humanity. A breathtaking trip, sharply edited.

  • Short: As Long As It Takes
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  The Tree

  Meticulously edited, frame by frame, The Hare Krishna Tree comes to life, more than 40 years after the images were shot.

  • Bright Future Short
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  Im Spiegel der Maya Deren

  Documentary about a mythical film-maker who was also a voodoo priestess, ethnologist, dancer, poet and political activist in one committed life. With

  • main programme features
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  Arcana

  Editing master Hills displays his skills as a creative director in a breathtaking work after a script and to music by John Zorn.

  • Spectrum Shorts
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  Fragments of Kubelka

  An extremely gentle, patient, careful portrait of an iconic film artist, where the subject matter surpasses the biographical to reveal precious insigh

  • Signals: Regained