Edinburgh International Film Festival · 2012
23 films · 23 reviews
While it's got culture (or at least poetry and sculpture), it's not long on meaning.
(Country: Netherlands; Year: 2012; Director: Anna Abrahams)
The music is striking, the aesthetic impact more dependent on sound than vision.
(Country: Canada; Year: 2010; Director: Lindsay McIntyre)
A kind of narrative pareidola.
(Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Craig Webster; Writer: Craig Webster, Maia Anastasya Melton)
A work as oft-filmed as Alice asks for something new, but it is not here.
(Country: US; Year: 2011; Director: Charlotte Pryce)
Stunning to look at.
(Country: New Zealand; Year: 2011; Director: SJ Ramir)
It is in places red, but it is nowhere deep.
(Country: Netherlands; Year: 2012; Director: Esther Urlus)
(Country: Germany; Year: 2012; Director: Telemach Wiesinger)
There are lines, but they are blurry, hypnotically so.
(Country: Belgium; Year: 2012; Director: Peter Snowdon; Stars: Aurélie Naumur)
There is an extant sense of mystery, perhaps trending to dread, but here it is not enough.
(Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Robert Todd)
The sound is enveloping, excellent, a submarine hunting for its missing guitar, a synthetic-aperture-radar love-song, ambience built steadily from Jurgen Gruber's audio samples.
(Country: Austria; Year: 2011; Director: Siegfried A Fruhauf)
A jealous castle in time, falsity piled upon artifice, circular and fleeting.
(Country: US; Year: 2011; Director: Lori Felker)
Even a failed experiment tells us something, and here what we are told is that it's not as entertaining as one would hope to watch people one doesn't know filming their travels in a vague and context free way.
(Country: US; Year: 2011; Director: Jang Hey-Yeun)
A woolly-hatted wandering wonderment.
(Country: UK; Year: 2011; Director: Andrew Kötting)
The widely differentiated effects on individual frames leaves great gulfs between them - startling when presented in succession.
(Country: US; Year: 2011; Director: Jennifer Reeves)
Debates play out over the relevant types of grainy CCTV footage but although branded an "experimental" film, the argument is robust and coherent.
(Country: Austria; Year: 2011; Director: Michael Palm)
In Pilgrimage there is a journey, but one is not certain if it is intentional that there is nothing at the end.
(Country: Canada; Year: 2011; Director: Marc Pelletier)
There's a suggestion that this is out of time, a zephyr inconstant, a mystery of the air and the shifting sands.
(Year: 2011; Director: Fern Silva)
An intriguing piece.
(Country: Italy; Year: 2011; Director: Flatform)
It is rare to be grateful that something so fleeting has passed.
(Country: Indonesia, Singapore; Year: 2011; Director: Kenneth Feinstein)
Three short films about suburban life.
(Country: USA; Year: 2011; Director: Abigail Child; Writer: Abigail Child)
Endured rather than enjoyed.
(Country: Turkey; Year: 2011; Director: Eytan Ipeker)
It's an inkblot, almost literally, and wallowing in the speculation its randomness generates is diverting.
(Country: Austria; Year: 2011; Director: Martina Heyduk)
Consider it an 'amuse oeil', an appetiser for a sense not traditionally courted in this way.
(Country: Norway; Year: 2011; Director: Karl Erik Brøndbo)
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