Closed Circuit
Combined programme
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IFFR 2005
The word organisation is a very large coat, but in virtually every country they have their equivalent: the distributors of experimental film and video art. Firing on one cylinder, sometimes on two. Together they are responsible for the presentation of a small yet important section of film and video art. Every year they come to Rotterdam to promote their work and to see that of their kindred spirits. This year, they responded to the invitation to screen the most misjudged work from their collection and explain why it is a misunderstood masterpiece.
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Rosecolored Flower
A rose in a glass vase on the windowsill. Soft Vermeer-like light falling into the dusky room, and playing through the crystal-clear water. Most of… -
Bouquets 26-27
Bouquets 26 and 27 are part of a series of one minute films, structured visually in the camera during filming covering a variety of subjects.… -
L’étreinte
Light creates movement. Black and White functions in this film as some sort of developer. There is something going on here that lies between death,… -
Pony Changes Everything
A man explains global currency markets without the help of his formerly trusty rockin’ talkin’ pony, who is missing. Without the pony, the world is… -
Heaven’s Gate
With Heaven’s Gate, Ahwesh employs a strategy similar to that used in 73 Suspect Words: against a blank screen, a metronomic procession of single words… -
Spaced Odditties
Pictures from a black and white documentary about the life in fresh water, recomposed on the celluloid ribbon by an image by image collage to… -
Van de koele meren des doods
A lady in a Seventeenth Century dress stands on the edge of a lake and looks out over the water. When we approach her the…