Edinburgh International Film Festival · 2010
Daring experiements in film form.
33 films · 12 reviews
(Country: Russia; Year: 2009; Director: Alexei Dmitriev)
Black Box 2: Open Your Eyes
(Country: Canada; Year: 2010; Director: Karen Hines; Writer: Karen Hines; Stars: Karen Hines)
Black Box 3: Time Travel
(Year: 2009; Director: Ching-Yi Tseng)
Black Box 2: Open Your Eyes
(Country: Ireland, US; Year: 2009; Director: Paul O'Donoghue) , Trailer
Black Box 2: Open Your Eyes
(Country: Austria; Year: 2010; Director: Billy Roisz)
Black Box 2: Open Your Eyes
Hand-processed super8 film makes patterns, colours, shapes that raise questions about technique, origin, which remain unanswered.
(Country: US; Year: 2009; Director: Janis Crystal Lipzin)
Black Box 1: Great And Small
(Country: Canada; Year: 2009; Director: Gerda Cammaer)
Black Box 3: Time Travel
(Country: UK; Year: 2009; Director: Jake Astbury; Writer: Helena Astbury, Jake Astbury)
Black Box 3: Time Travel
(Country: Austria; Year: 2009; Director: Barbara Doser)
Black Box 2: Open Your Eyes
Conveys mood and beauty ably but never quite grabs.
(Country: US; Year: 2009; Director: Robert Todd) , Official site
Black Box 1: Great And Small
The film itself is a thing attacked, artifact upon medium transformed by light into something inexplicable.
(Country: UK; Year: 2010; Director: James Holcombe)
Black Box 1: Great And Small
(Country: US; Year: 2009; Director: Juan David Gonzalez Monroy)
Black Box 2: Open Your Eyes
What grates is that the film cannot stand alone, but more so that even with support it falters.
(Country: US; Year: 2009; Director: David Gatten)
Black Box 1: Great And Small
(Country: Croatia; Year: 2009; Director: Nikola Kovac)
Black Box 3: Time Travel
(Country: US; Year: 2009; Director: Eileen Richardson)
Black Box 3: Time Travel
Three minutes that are thing and un-thing, a flicker of stillness.
(Country: Thailand; Year: 2009; Director: Tomonari Nishikawa)
Black Box 1: Great And Small
(Country: Canada; Year: 2009; Director: Mike Holboom)
(Country: UK; Year: 2009; Director: Daniel Hopkins) , Official site
Black Box 2: Open Your Eyes
(Country: US; Year: 2009; Director: Abraham Ravett)
Black Box 3: Time Travel
Sometimes the sense of a thing is enough, and Paradise Later delivers ably.
(Country: Austria, Germany; Year: 2010; Director: Ascan Breuer; Writer: Ascan Breuer; Stars: Tony Dunham)
Black Box 1: Great And Small
(Country: UK; Year: 2009; Director: Sarah Turner)
(Year: 2010; Director: Simon Payne)
Black Box 2: Open Your Eyes
(Year: 2010; Director: Johann Lurf)
Black Box 2: Open Your Eyes
Visually impressive, technically proficient, Scene 32 impresses the eyes.
(Country: US, India; Year: 2009; Director: Shambhavi Kaul)
Black Box 1: Great And Small
Naheed Raza's film is hypnotic.
(Year: 2009; Director: Naheed Raza) , Official site
Black Box 1: Great And Small
Only just avoids outstaying its welcome.
(Country: Austria; Year: 2009; Director: Rainer Gamsjäger)
Black Box 1: Great And Small
(Country: US; Year: 2009; Director: David Ellsworth)
Black Box 3: Time Travel
(Country: Netherlands; Year: 2009; Director: Martijn van Boven)
Black Box 2: Open Your Eyes
(Country: US; Year: 2010; Director: Stephanie Barber)
Black Box 3: Time Travel
Dachi Sato's film is striking, the flicker of light through trees like rolling down a forested lane.
(Country: Canada; Year: 2009; Director: Daichi Saito)
Black Box 1: Great And Small
(Country: US; Year: 2009; Director: Laura Kraning)
Black Box 3: Time Travel
Messy, seeming unmoderated.
(Country: US; Year: 2009; Director: Erin Espelie)
Black Box 1: Great And Small
Genuinely advancing the form of the found footage film by attempting to merge it with the digital.
(Country: Germany; Year: 2009; Director: Thorsten Fleisch) , Official site , Trailer
Black Box 2: Open Your Eyes
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