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Edinburgh International Film Festival 2019

In addition to the longer features, there are also a number of short showcases (indicated after the film in italics)

  • Communicating Contact
  • Entangled Experience
  • Politics Of Place

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Altiplano (Country: Chile, Argentina, Canada; Year: 2018; Director: Malena Szlam), Trailer
Filmed in the Andean Mountains in the traditional lands of the Atacameño, Aymara, and Calchaquí-Diaguita in Northern Chile and Northwest Argentina, this short takes place within a geological universe of ancestral salt flats, volcanic deserts, and coloured lakes.
UK premiere. Communicating Contact
Body All Eyes (Country: Finland; Year: 2018; Director: Saara Ekström)
This 8mm split-screen film explores the symmetry in the shapes that take flight and the bodies that remain.
Scottish premiere. Entangled Experience
Churubusco Inventory (Country: Mexico; Year: 2019; Director: Elena Pardo)
The legendary lab of Churubusco Studios in Mexico City comes back to life in stop-motion animation.
UK premiere. Communicating Contact
Epoch (Country: Ireland; Year: 2018; Director: Kevin McLoughlin)
Animation of eye-in-the-sky commonality.
Politics Of Place
Home In E Major (Country: US; Year: 2019; Director: Tamar Rachkovsky; Stars: Elisabeth Jezierski, Tamar Rachkovsky, Li Zhen, Stuart Barr, Vera Gutkina)
Documentary about the filmmaker's own move from Jerusalem to Durham, North Carolina.
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Home In E Major and Body All Eyes
It Has To Be Lived Once And Dreamed Twice (Country: Austria, Germany; Year: 2019; Director: Rainer Kohlberger; Writer: Rainer Kohlberger; Stars: Annika Henderson, Annika Henderson)
Emerging from the debris of static and fractal noise, an emotionless overseer conveys the story of the sixth extinction from their post-human vantage point.
UK premiere. Politics Of Place
It Matters What (Country: Canada; Year: 2018; Director: Francisca Duran)
A textual and textural filmic manifesto combining extracts from Donna Haraway’s essay ‘Tentacular Thinking: Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Chthulucene’ with in-camera animation.
UK premiere. Entangled Experience
Kleep Toowit, Klip Klip, Too-ow-wit (Country: UK; Year: 2018; Director: Maria Anastassiou)
Birdwatching provides a critical space for thinking about marginal landscapes and shared spaces.
Scottish premiere. Politics Of Place
Las Breas (Country: US; Year: 2019; Director: Laura Kraning, Blue Kraning)
An observational portrait of three tar pits, of which there are only six in the world.
International premiere. Politics Of Place
Lumen (Country: UK; Year: 2018; Director: Richard Ashrowan)
A silent exploration of light and gesture, finding the light, losing it, moments of exploration, hesitation and connection.
UK premiere. Communicating Contact
Mensch Maschine Or Putting Parts Together (Country: Austria; Year: 2018; Director: Adina Camhy)
A playful take on gendered technology and the mechanisation of society.
UK premiere. Communicating Contact
Not (A) Part (Country: UK; Year: 2019; Director: Vicky Smith)
Dead bee parts found on walks around South West England are assembled and contact printed directly onto 16mm film, creating reanimated on-screen bodies.
Scottish premiere. Entangled Experience
Past Perfect (Country: Portugal; Year: 2019; Director: Jorge Jácome; Writer: Jorge Jácome, Pedro Penim)
Consideration of the political implications of nostalgia.
Scottish premiere. Politics Of Place
Philately (Country: US; Year: 2018; Director: Pam Minty)
A keenly perceived macro-photographic study of the dot-print artwork of postage stamps.
International premiere. Communicating Contact
Porquerolles (Country: France, Belgium, UK; Year: 2019; Director: Nicky Hamlyn)
Structural filmmaking exploring multiple framings of six stone blocks that lie in a field in the south of France.
UK premiere. Entangled Experience
Pwdre Ser: The Rot Of Stars (Country: US; Year: 2018; Director: Charlotte Pryce)
Pwdre ser is the Welsh name for the mythical substance star jelly, which has been observed since the 1400s. The film depicts an encounter with a mysterious, luminous, electrical substance.
UK premiere. Entangled Experience
Sir Bailey (Country: Canada; Year: 2018; Director: Matthew Ripplinger)
A portrait of the filmmaker's old friend suffering from bone cancer.
UK premiere. Entangled Experience
Starts Wednesday (Country: UK; Year: 2018; Director: David Leister)
Time seems to have stalled, as recovered 35mm strips of weekdays revolve disorderly in a carousel of past attractions.
International premiere. Communicating Contact
A Study of Fly (Country: US; Year: 2018; Director: Cherlyn Hsing-Hsin Liu; Stars: Wen-Chu Yang, Zheng Fu)
A reflection on the relationship between insect, human, environment and the universe.
European premiere. Entangled Experience
Total Commitment (Country: UK; Year: 2019; Director: Lars Koens)
A diver at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin is caught in mid-air across a triptych patterned by a series of tense sonic interrogations.
Scottish premiere. Communicating Contact
Unless You’re Living It (Country: Canada, US; Year: 2019; Director: Sarah Bliss)
The simultaneous vulnerability and endurance of a marginalised community is transferred on to this portrait of the quintessential post-industrial town of Mount Forest, Ontario.
UK premiere. Politics Of Place
Vulture (Country: Canada; Year: 2019; Director: Philip Hoffman)
Consideration of farm animals.
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Water And Clearing (Country: Austria; Year: 2018; Director: Siegfried A Fruhauf)
An old bucket travels to fill a well.
UK premiere. Communicating Contact
Winter's First Moons (Country: US; Year: 2019; Director: Kathleen Rugh)
A companion piece to last year’s Summer’s Last Moons. Filmed over several nights and using multiple exposures and in-camera editing, Rugh creates a conversation between moons in different phases.
UK premiere. Entangled Experience
Wunderschein (Country: Germany, New Zealand; Year: 2019; Director: Guillaume Cailleau; Writer: Matteo Conti)
Documenting the production of euro banknotes.
World premiere. Communicating Contact
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