When she was 16, Sadie Benning stopped going to high school for three weeks and stayed inside with her camera, her TV set, and a pile of dirty laundry. This tape mirrors her psyche during this time. (Video Data Bank)
Ook in dit verzamelprogramma
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All the Way to Te Rerenga Wairua
The work asks “what happens to a spirit after death?”, between māori and pākehā identity, on the path to heaven or hawaiki. (Circuit) -
Boardgame, or From the Ranks to Field Marshal
Recruits of the Union of South Africa board ships to the beat of S.E.K. Mqhayi’s sarcasm-laden poem The Dark Army. (Argos) -
Looking for the Moon
Tentative gestures of hands and body become symbolic of opposing emotions involved in closeness to one person, trust – the need to escape. (LUX) -
SHIFT SYMM.two
Sculptural sonic architecture plays on rigorous shifts of compositional symmetry with results that are both hypnotic and evocative. (LIMA) -
The Devil
The violence and vilification of the African-American struggle for civil rights examined in striking black-and-white archival footage. (Light Cone) -
Videoactive
Bergman’s Persona is the subject of inquiry in a Los Angeles video store with a unique categorisation system. (FilmForm) -
ACTUA I
A collage of scenes from the Paris barricades in May 1968. The 16mm and 35mm footage thrusts the audience right into the heart of the revolutiona -
Thirza Cuthand Is an Indian Within the Meaning of the Indian Act
As a light-skinned indigenous woman, Cuthand reiterates that racism and discrimination still happen to her, just in different ways. (V-tape) -
10/65 Selbstverstümmelung
Each image is paced to provoke a tense, iconoclastic revelation of a plaster-covered man taking part in symbolic acts of self-mutilation. (sixpac -
Riverred
Footage of children playing in the Godavari River juxtaposes with scenes from Cocteau’s Orphée to break the boundaries of each and create -
Aleatoria
Disorder incarnate, the lady of the wheel. Randomness, chance, and the unpredictability of being are at her command. (Winnipeg Film Group) -
Shadows
Past and future mingle at the harbour in Essaouira as children dive, fishermen work, women hang around, seagulls fly and construction works -
Tinseltown Swimming in Blood
Karen Zolo’s remake of Chris Marker’s La Jetée in music video form, for Destroyer’s single, ‘Tinseltown Swimming in Blood’. Starring Dan Bejar of Destroyer, Zolo’s… -
History Bleeds Under Your Fingernails
A short film on the history of taming the left hand and on the culture of cultivating the bodies that do not fit. (AV-Arkki)
Film details
- Productieland
- USA
- Jaar
- 1989
- Festivaleditie
- IFFR 2018
- Lengte
- 5'
- Medium/Formaat
- File
