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Edinburgh International Film Festival · 2004

Edinburgh International Film Festival 2004

Black Box

The EIFF programme says: "The world of art collides with film and video."

Programme

6 films · 2 reviews

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Black Box 1: Space Defined

Explores various treatments of pictoral space. Features: Apollo (Tomonari Nishikawa), Aqua Gym (Simon Warwick Green), Building (Anouk De Clercq, Joris Cool, Anton Aeki), Do You Have The Shine? (Johan Thurfjell), Fade Into White #4 (Goshima Kazuhiro), The Galilean Satellites: Europa (Courtnay Hoskins), The Galilean Satellites: Io (Courtnay Hoskins), Horizontal Silence (Seoungho Cho), Momentum (Martijn Veldhoen), Papillon D'Amour (Nicolas Provost), A Room With A View In The Financial District (Carola Dertnig), Zeno's Paradox (Robert Arnold).

(Year: 2005)

Black Box 2: Time Regained

Snapshots from a vanished present. Featuring: American Dreams #3 (Moira Tierney), The Bathers (Johannes Hammel), Kismet (Shelbatra Jashari), Light Is Calling (Bill Morrisson), Loretta (Jeanne Liota), Out Of Ether (Kerry A Laitala), Prologue (Bela Tarr), Restored Weekend (Gerd Gockell, Kirsten Winter), seciron_RA (reMI), Violette (Jean-Philippe Farber)

(Year: 2005)

Blue Black Permanent

Edinburgh-based photographer comes to terms with the death of her mother.

(Country: UK; Year: 1992; Director: Margaret Tait; Writer: Margaret Tait; Stars: Celia Imrie, Jack Shepherd, Gerda Stevenson, James Fleet, Sean Scanlan, Hilary Maclean, Walter Leask, Sheana Marr, Eoim MacDonald, Jimmy Moar, Liz Robertson)

Chain

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An impassioned cine-tract.

Keith Hennessey Brown · 4 out of 5
An agit-prop study of consumerism and teenage despair in the US heartland of the big sell.

(Country: US/Germany; Year: 2004; Director: Jem Cohen; Writer: Jem Cohen; Stars: Miho Nikaido, Mira Billotte)

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Margaret Tate: Programmes 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5

Collection of short films by Scottish artist and filmmaker, whose career spanned more than 30 years.

(Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: Margaret Tate)

War

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The gritty, flickering, b&w picture looks really cool, but it doesn't capture anything of interest.

Gator MacReady · 2 out of 5
Mysterious end-of-the-world black-and-white study of life after nothing.

(Country: US; Year: 2004; Director: Jake Mahaffy; Writer: Jake Mahaffy; Stars: Paul Mahaffy, Jeff Clark, Andy Yurick, Dustin Bertch, Richard Kirkwood) , Official site

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