Out of Sight
Combined programme
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IFFR 2016
People are generally blind to their own way of looking. These short films heighten our attention to light, darkness, flickering, mechanical rhythm and imaginary projections.
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Eidola
Artist Peter Miller used infrared glasses to examine a coil in the camera and wrote his ‘images’ onto it with a laser pen. -
Sakala
This study of the forgotten statue of Sakala, the first African boy to visit Belgium in 1884, critically analyses Western perspectives. -
The Light and the Paper
How empty is a blank page? This film carefully studies the prime precondition for seeing: the presence of light. -
Lightkeeping
Quotes from photographic pioneer William Fox Talbot’s letters accompany black-and-white images that exude timeless calm. -
L’invitation au voyage
A series of beautiful black-and-white photographs marred by yellow Post-its with their notes erased. An unassuming narrator makes them even more myste -
Eigenlicht
Certain minerals convert absorbed UV light into visible colours of unearthly beauty. Shown in sacred, cosmic silence.