The post MIFF 2013 blues were this year kept at bay by the Geelong Gallery install of Gracia and my component of our exhibition, All breathing in heaven, with Stephen Wickham. I will shortly be sharing with you more details about this exhibition which opened today and runs until mid October, but first things first, farewell MIFF.
As Gracia commented in her MIFF farewell post (which I urge you to read in full), "in 17 days, we’ve been to Romania, Denmark, Quebec, Chad, Kurdistan,
Turkey, Vienna, Iran, Japan, Russia, Scotland, and Mexico. We’ve seen 6,030
minutes of footage. We’ve queued for food rations at a refuge camp, seen
inside hospital wards, chemists, school rooms, bathrooms, and tiny
bedrooms. We’ve seen homes like our own cluttered one, and those like
paintings neatly orchestrated. We’ve seen the wilderness torn apart.
People torn apart. Families too, and their subsequent mending...".
Together, we saw a reworking of the Brothers Grimm (Blancaneives, director: Pablo Berger), witnessed police procedure courtesy of Romanian new wave cinema (Child's Pose, director: Călin Peter Netzer), seen a film by a filmmaker defying the twenty-year-filmmaking ban imposed on him by the Islamic republic authorities (Closed Curtain, director: Jafar Panahi), and a film by the world's oldest filmmaker too (Gebo and the shadow, director: Manoel de Oliveira). We've seen Edward Hopper's realist paintings reimagined and used to tell a slice of American history from the 1930s to the '60s (Shirley — Visions of Reality, director: Gustav Deutsch), and seen a film shown in nine different chapters selected at random that draw upon the writings of anti-fascist author Günther Anders (differently, Molussia, director: Nicolas Rey). We followed a young Kurdish rebel through the Turkish forest ravaged by war (Jîn, director: Reha Erdem), and seen what is left of life after serving a 30-year prison sentence in a film that draws upon the experience of Kurdish-Iranian poet Sadegh Kamangar (Rhino Season, director: Bahman Ghobadi). We saw life through the eyes of an illegal immigrant in Tijuana (Workers, director: José Luis Valle), and listened to the daily confessional of a wife in a war-torn Middle Eastern village (The Patience Stone, director: Atiq Rahimi).
July sure was busy, and August too. As always, keep up via instagram.
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