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Karlovy Vary International Film Festival · 2013

Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2013

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17 films · 1 review

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Atropa

Even in contemporary Europe people can be found practising rituals, as this experimental film demonstrates while encouraging the viewer towards a state of heightened perception of nature.

(Country: Germany; Year: 2013; Director: Peter Conrad Beyer)

Black Mass Rising

A stunning psychedelic trip and an oppressive dream for fans of Kenneth Anger and dark music, filmed entirely on a mobile phone

(Country: France; Year: 2011; Director: Shazula)

By Pain And Rhyme And Arabesques Of Foraging

Inspired by the work of Irish natural philosopher Robert Boyle, the movie presents a dreamlike series of impressions that, in addition to corresponding to the thinker’s legacy, set in motion a challenging game with the film medium.

(Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: David Gatten)

The Capsule

Seven young women. A mansion perched on a Cycladic rock. A series of lessons on discipline, desire, discovery, and disappearance. A melancholy, inescapable cycle on the brink of womanhood – infinitely.

(Country: Greece; Year: 2012; Director: Athina Rachel Tsangari; Writer: Athina Rachel Tsangari, Aleksandra Waliszewska; Stars: Ariane Labed, Isolda Dychauk, Clémence Poésy, Evangelia Randou, Aurora Marion, Deniz Gamze Ergüven, Sofia Dona, Ying Gao, Aleksandra Waliszewska)

Consequence (Gegenwart)

A detailed study of what happens during cremation.

(Country: Germany; Year: 2012; Director: Thomas Heise)

Fata Morgana

Review preview for Fata Morgana

This invigorating tone poem is far more difficult to describe than it is to sit through.

Michael Pattison · 3 out of 5
Musings on the meanings of life, death and the world.

(Country: Austria; Year: 2013; Director: Peter Schreiner; Writer: Peter Schreiner; Stars: Christian Schmidt, Guiliana Pachner)

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Figs

Two male bodies in a playful tussle, two male bodies in the shower. A possible memory of something that has passed.

(Country: Sweden; Year: 2012; Director: Tony Cederteg)

I Have A Body There ( Já Tam Mám Tělo)

A detective story inspired by real events. The body of a woman was found floating in the sea – appearances suggested it could have been that of a sixteen-year-old girl. However, police later identified the woman as Anneka Di Lorenzo, 58-year-old actress and model for Penthouse magazine during the 1970s. But the mystery was only just beginning...

(Country: Czech Republic; Year: 2012; Director: Adéla Babanová)

Letter

An impressionistic and disturbing black-and-white documentary short in which Sergei Loznitsa takes the viewer to an old wooden house in northwestern Russia. Like its inhabitants, the place has clearly been untouched by contemporary civilization. What is this building?

(Country: Netherlands, Russia; Year: 2013; Director: Sergei Loznitsa)

A Messenger From The Shadows

Actor Lon Chaney is an iconic figure of the silent horror. He played Quasimodo and the eponymous lead in The Phantom of the Opera, and he also appeared in ten films directed by Tod Browning. This imaginative hour-long compilation of excerpts from his surviving works offers a new take on early films and comes with an unsettling soundtrack from Bernhard Lang.

(Country: Austria; Year: 2013; Director: Norbert Pfaffenbichler)

Noise ( Šumění)

A video assigned to the “found footage” category of films that modify and process original early film material in a post production studio. Here the author uses excerpts from the Czech detective film The Murderer Hides His Face, directed in 1966 by Petr Schulhoff and starring Rudolf Hrušínský.

(Country: Czech Republic; Year: 2012; Director: Daniel Pitín)

Shirley - Visions of Reality

13 Edward Hopper paintings come to life.

(Country: Austria; Year: 2013; Director: Gustav Deutsch; Stars: Stephanie Cumming, Christoph Bach)

Stemple Pass

An experimental exploration of the psyche of the Unabomber.

(Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: James Benning)

Talking About Art

Talking about art with Rudolf Hrušínský. The film makes intriguing use of the various ways to modify temporal linearity, the narrative structures of verbal expression, and the lexicon applied to visual phenomena.

(Country: Czech Republic; Year: 2012; Director: Roman Štětina)

Then Is Black (Potom Je černá)

This film highlights our fascination for the circus environment, both in terms of its socio-architectural aspects, and the nostalgia and emotions we have always associated with it.

(Country: Czech Republic; Year: 2013; Director: Viktor Takáč)

They

A series of slapstick minis shot in a virtual environment with the help of actors who went through a process of artificial evolution.

(Year: 2012; Director: Vilém Novák)

workers leaving the factory (again)

In the Lumière brothers’ first film from 1895 workers were captured leaving their factory, a process which took less than a minute. In the hypnotic variation on this iconic moving image we observe a similar event played out over eleven minutes. What has changed in 117 years?

(Country: Austria; Year: 2012; Director: Katharina Gruzei)