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London Film Festival · 2009

London Film Festival 2009

Experimenta

A walk on the wilder, avant garde side of cinema. Includes the short film showcases Whirl Of Confusion and Human Nature

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29 films · 2 reviews

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And The Sun Flowers

The director says, this is :"Notes from the distant future and forgotten past. An ethereal flower and disembodied voice guide you through the spaces in between."

(Country: US; Year: 2008; Director: Mary Helena Clark)

Showing in Whirl Of Confusion

An Organization of Dreams

Exploring the power of cinema, both as an inspiration and as a manipulator.

(Country: UK, France; Year: 2009; Director: Ken McMullen; Writer: Ken McMullen; Stars: Bernard Stiegler, Gabriella Wright, Dominique Pinon)

Blind Pig Who Wants To Fly (Babi buta yang ingin terbang)

Ideas of disoriented identity are explored in this exploration of Chinese-Indonesian experience. Screening at London Film Festival with shorts Trip To The Wound and Hulahoop Surroundings.

(Country: Indonesia; Year: 2008; Director: Edwin; Writer: Edwin; Stars: Joko Anwar, Clarine Baharrizki, Ladya Cheryll, Andhara Early, Carlo Genta, Pong Harjatmo, Wicaksono)

Burning Palace

A dream-filled night in a Parisian hotel.

(Country: Austria; Year: 2009; Director: Chris Haring, Mara Mattuschka; Writer: Mara Mattuschka, Chris Haring; Stars: Stephanie Cumming, Luke Baio, Katharina Meves)

Showing in Human Nature

Castro

A man goes on the run from his ex-wife and the men she has sent to track him down.

(Country: Argentina; Year: 2009; Director: Alejo Moguillansky; Writer: Alejo Moguillansky; Stars: Edgardo Castro, Julia Martínez Rubio, Alberto Suárez)

contre-jour

Blurs, flashes and stroboscope montages disintegrate reality into shadowy images that inflict pain on the retina, apparently... needless to say this comes with a warning that it is not suitable for epileptics.

(Country: Germany; Year: 2009; Director: Christoph Girardet, Matthias Müller; Stars: Elisabeth Masé, Ralph Kostrzewa)

Showing in Whirl Of Confusion

The Discovery

Casting an experimental eye over a parlour game.

(Country: US; Year: 2009)

Showing in Human Nature

Double Take

Review preview for Double Take

Some will find the apparently random nature of its early scenes so irritating that they'll just give up. But there will almost certainly be others who will consider this to be one of the best films they have ever seen.

Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
As Cold War tensions rise and the world teeters on the brink of destruction, Alfred Hitchcock meets his double.

(Country: Belgium, Germany, Netherlands; Year: 2009; Director: Johan Grimonprez; Stars: Ron Burrage, Mark Perry) , Trailer

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Elementary Training For Actors (Entrenamiento elemental para actores)

Comic exploration of method acting, as seen through the eyes of a teacher trying to school children in the technique.

(Country: Argentina; Year: 2009; Director: Federico León, Martín Rejtman; Writer: Federico León, Martín Rejtman; Stars: Fabián Arenillas, Ulises Bercovich, Luca Damperat, Brian Sichel, Luis Sichel, Julian Zucker, Mario Zucker)

The Exception And The Rule

Avant garde documentary, exploring political themes.

(Country: UK, Pakistan, India; Year: 2009; Director: Karen Mirza, Brad Butler)

False Aging

Surreal collage.

(Country: US; Year: 2008; Director: Lewis Klahr)

Showing in Whirl Of Confusion

The Ferrari Dino Girl (Holka Ferrari Dino)

The director reveals how he shot footage of the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia and managed to smuggle it out.

(Country: Czech Republic; Year: 2009; Director: Jan Nemec; Writer: Jan Nemec; Stars: Karel Roden, Tammy Sundquist, Jan Budar)

Film For Invisible Ink Case No. 142: Abbreviation For Dead Winter (Diminished By 1,794)

The director says: "A single piece of paper, a second stab at suture, a story three times over, a frame for every mile. Words by Charles Darwin."

(Country: US; Year: 2008; Director: David Gatten)

Showing in Whirl Of Confusion

FILM IST. A Girl & A Gun

Vision of relationships explored through 'found footage'.

(Country: Austria, Germany; Year: 2009; Director: Gustav Deutsch; Writer: Gustav Deutsch)

Gregor Alexis

Portrait of the filmmaker's schizophrenic brother.

(Country: Germany; Year: 2009; Director: Jana Debus)

Showing in Human Nature

Hollis Frampton: Hapax Legomena

Seven-part series exploring the relationship between filmmaker and viewer.

(Year: 1972; Director: Hollis Frampton)

Hotel Roccalba

An afternoon at an Alpine hotel.

(Country: Austria; Year: 2008; Director: Josef Dabernig)

Showing in Human Nature

Monolog

Exploring the nature of the viewer - created especially for London Film Festival this will be shown on a continuous loop.

(Country: UK, France; Year: 2009; Director: Laure Prouvost)

Mount Shasta

A puppet play based on incidents from a road trip.

(Country: Canada; Year: 2008; Director: Oliver Husain)

Showing in Whirl Of Confusion

My Absolution

Described by the festival as a "cryptic performance" this work will be shown for free on a continuous loop.

(Country: Russia, Netherlands; Director: Victor Alimpiev)

My Tears Are Dry

Poetic look at an afternoon's repose in southern California.

(Country: USA, Spain; Year: 2009; Director: Laida Lertxundi)

My White Baby (Me broni ba)

Portrait Ghanaian hair salons, exploring the legacy of the country's colonial heritage.

(Country: US; Year: 2009; Director: Akosua Adoma Owusu; Writer: Adowa Adu-Gyamfi, Akosua Adoma Owusu)

Passage briare

A chance meeting in a Parisian street leads to a revelation.

(Country: Austria; Year: 2009; Director: Friedl vom Gröller)

Showing in Human Nature

Perestroika

The director retraces her route along the Trans-siberian railway that proved to be her last trip with a friend, exploring the impact of the past on the present.

(Country: UK; Year: 2009; Director: Sarah Turner)

The Portuguese Nun (A Religiosa Portuguesa)

Review preview for The Portuguese Nun

Green's film, like Verde's, will no doubt seem boring to some, overly intellectual to others, while still others will find it deeply affecting.

Anton Bitel · 3.5 out of 5
An actress rediscovers herself on a film shoot in Portugal.

(Country: Portugal, France; Year: 2009; Director: Eugène Green; Writer: Eugène Green; Stars: Leonor Baldaque, Adrien Michaux, Beatriz Batarda, Diogo Dória, Eugène Green, Francisco Mozos, Ana Moreira)

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The Presentation Theme

Animation drawing on the myths of the ancient Moche civilisation.

(Country: US; Year: 2009; Director: Jim Trainor)

Showing in Human Nature

Shot Film

This film has been shot, literally, with a gun.

(Country: UK, Norway; Year: 2009; Director: Greg Pope)

Showing in Whirl Of Confusion

They All Lie (Todos mienten)

Post-modern thriller-cum-playful-fable centres on a group of friends in a Buenos Aires house.

(Country: Argentina; Year: 2009; Director: Matías Piñeiro; Writer: Matías Piñeiro; Stars: Julia Martínez Rubio, Romina Paula, María Villar)

Wolf's froth/Amongst other things

Read what Paul Abbot says about this film on his website

(Country: UK; Year: 1009; Director: Paul Abbott)

Showing in Whirl Of Confusion