當代精選

從全球影展中精選七部重要作品。「回訪」似乎成為這些影片的共同主題，穿越時間與空間，在當代的視野中，記錄與回望過去的自己。

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The Kodachrome Elegies

Kodachrome was a film stock noted for its rich tones and vibrant colours. This short experimental documentary evokes the bygone era of Kodachrome’s pinnacle. While it is a paean to this lost film stock, the film suggests the end of an era and the loss of innocence.

When You Awake

An unscientific study of what happens when two people are hypnotised leading into an exhilarating journey into the unconscious mind – the repository for fears, desires, aggression, dreams – where all the images, sounds and music are from found footage.

This Is the Way I Like It II

In 1985 Ignacio AGÜERO made a short film in which he interrupted his fellow filmmakers at work to ask them about the sense of filmmaking under PINOCHET’s dictatorship. 30 years later, he revisits the concept and interrupts the shooting of those filming today to pose once more the question of the essence of cinema.

West of the Jordan River

The film describes the efforts of citizens, Israelis and Palestinians, who are trying to overcome the consequences of occupation. It shows the human ties woven by the military, human rights activists, journalists, mourning mothers and even Jewish settlers.

Spell Reel

In 2011 an audio-visual material re-emerged in Bissau. Filipa CÉSAR imagines a journey where the fragile matter from the past operates as a visionary prism of shrapnel to look through. Digitised in Berlin, screened and live commented, the archive convokes debates, storytelling, and forecasts. The silent reels are now the place from where people search for antidotes for a world in crisis.

Hengyoro

A complex Okinawan road movie that mixes fact and fiction to tell the story of two men who cannot forget the wartime memories of their childhood. New HD digital and 8mm film footage is interspersed with older 8mm material shot by director TAKAMINE in the 1970s, creating a rich film world for the story and flourishing into a radiant elegy of expressive gesture.

Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?

Alabama, 1946. S.E. BRANCH, the filmmaker’s great-grandfather, murdered Bill SPANN, a black man. The murder has become hidden family lore and when WILKERSON sets out to unravel the mystery, he encounters obstacle upon obstacle, destroyed records and everyone refusing to talk. He’s accused of bringing shame upon the family, shaking up old trouble nobody wants. The ghosts are real in Alabama.

Panorama

A common theme of ‘revisit’ seems to weave through the 7 titles in this programme. Across time and space, with contemporary visions, these filmmakers document and return to the past.