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Sundance Film Festival · 2008

Sundance Film Festival 2008

New Frontier

The New Frontier section offers six films "at the crossroads of art, environment, culture and new media".

Programme

6 films · 2 reviews

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Casting A Glance

An experiential look at Robert Smithson’s monumental sculpture, the Spiral Jetty, as it has evolved over 30 years in concert with the ebb and flow of the Great Salt Lake.

(Country: USA; Year: 2007; Director: James Benning)

Eat, For This Is My Body (Mange, Ceci Est Mon Corps)

Review preview for Eat, For This Is My Body

It's the bare faced pretension of the exercise that overwhelms.

Amber Wilkinson · 1.5 out of 5
Avant garde 'documentary' loosely exploring the colonialist history of Haiti.

(Country: France, Haiti; Year: 2007; Director: Michelange Quay; Writer: Michelange Quay; Stars: Sylvie Testud, Catherine Samie, Jean Noël Pierre, Hans Dacost Saint-Val)

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Fear(s) Of The Dark (Peur(s) Du Noir)

Review preview for Fear(s) Of The Dark

Fear(s) of the Dark is a collection of great animations, but while each of its chapters are great, the overall film doesn't gel brilliantly.

George Williamson · 3.5 out of 5
Ten animations from the dark side.

(Country: France; Year: 2007; Director: Blutch, Charles Burns, Marie Callou, Richard McGuire, Pierre Di Sciullio, Lorenzo Mattotti Screenwriters: Jerry Kramsky, Pirus, Romaine Slocombe, Etienne Robial)

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Half-Life

As troubling signs of global cataclysms accelerate, a brother and sister react to their father's desertion and the powerful presence of their mother's new boyfriend.

(Country: USA; Director: Jennifer Phang)

Reversion

In a world in which the past, present and future simultaneously unfold, a woman whose genetic mutation leaves her devoid of morality struggles to preserve her romance with the man she loves.

(Country: USA; Director: Mia Trachinger)

Seven Intellectuals In Bamboo Forest, Parts 1 To 5

A rare screening of the artist's celebrated series, based on the history of seven intellectuals in the ancient Chinese Wei and Jin Dynasties.

(Country: USA; Year: 2008; Director: Yang Fudong)