Kerry Laitala

Kerry Laitala at IFFR

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  Orbit

  • Short: Starting from Scratch

  Kerry Laitala | 7' | USA | European premiere

  An ode to Kodachrome. A swirling carousel of brushstrokes of light in bright colours on celluloid.
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  Muse of Cinema

  • Exposing Cinema: Borderline Behaviour

  Kerry Laitala | 20' | USA | World premiere

  For The Muse of Cinema Laitala exposed the film directly with a light source, not a movie camera.
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  Spectrology

  • Spectrum Shorts

  Kerry Laitala | 12' | USA | European premiere

  Spectrology is a phantasmagoria. Cinema as a means to bring ghosts to life.
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  Torchlight Tango

  • Short: Starting from Scratch

  Kerry Laitala | 20' | USA | -

  Hyperactive do-it-yourself 16mm film about the hidden life of the film maker in the darkroom. Nominated for the Tiger Awards for Short Film.

• Awake but Dreaming

  • Ex Voto: Mapping the Heart

  Kerry Laitala | 8' | USA | -

  Shot in the Hirschgang Oberer, an extended curved hallway at the Akademie Schloss Solitude, like an endless cycle.

• Secure the Shadow

  • Ex Voto: Mapping the Heart

  Kerry Laitala | 9' | USA | -

  About the fiction of photography as a democratising medium in the process of mourning and a physical reminder of loss.

• The Adventure Parade

  • Ex Voto: Mapping the Heart

  Kerry Laitala | 6' | USA | International premiere

  The inherent violence that is intimated at in this hand-processed film can only offer a clue of past interventions.

• Conquered

  • Ex Voto: Mapping the Heart

  Kerry Laitala | 14' | USA | World premiere

  Filmed entirely at the Akademie Schloss Solitude. Images coming from the depths of a submerged self.
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  Hallowed

  • main programme short

  Kerry Laitala | 11' | USA | International premiere

  A mystical journey by a woman, who returns to the start of time.
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  Bush Mechanics

  • Tracking Tomorrow

  Francis Kelly, David Batty, Kerry Laitala | 26' | Australia | -

  Ingenious inventions for survival in the outback.