Animalia Paradoxa
Using a blend of stop-motion animation and live-action, Niles Atallah gorgeously crafts a mesmeric, dying world of analogue detritus and vestiges of magical knowledge, in which a half-amphibian being dreams of survival.
Read MorePosted by Carmen Gray | Jan 31, 2024 | Festivals, Rotterdam 2024 |
Using a blend of stop-motion animation and live-action, Niles Atallah gorgeously crafts a mesmeric, dying world of analogue detritus and vestiges of magical knowledge, in which a half-amphibian being dreams of survival.
Read MorePosted by Carmen Gray | Jan 30, 2024 | Featured, Festivals, Rotterdam 2024 |
A solitary artist rents her Tehran house out to a film crew, in an ingeniously layered, droll reflection on how we construct memory and community.
Read MorePosted by Carmen Gray | Jan 29, 2024 | Festivals, Rotterdam 2024 |
A cryptic Deborah Levy novel is stylised for the screen as an elusive and surrealistic dance of the subconscious, as an uninvited guest crashes a poet’s family vacation.
Read MorePosted by Carmen Gray | Jan 28, 2024 | Featured, Festivals, Rotterdam 2023 |
Set in the Negev Desert where action blockbuster ‘Rambo III’ was shot, ‘Under a Blue Sun’ is an intricately layered doc scrutinising the intersection of war simulation, oppression and entertainment.
Read MorePosted by Carmen Gray | Jan 27, 2024 | Festivals, Rotterdam 2024 |
Baffling, free-ranging and mesmeric, ‘Moses’ roams through a text on religion by Freud with deadpan Finnish humour that grounds its kooky performance art.
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