Additional Screenings
The Host / Miranda Pennell / United Kingdom / 2015 / 60 min / English
A filmmaker becomes a forensic detective as she pieces together hundreds of photographs in search of what she believes to be a buried history, only to find herself inside the story she is researching. The film investigates the activities of British Petroleum (BP) in Iran; it is a tale of power, imperial hubris and catastrophe.Magic Mirror / Sarah Pucill / United Kingdom / 2013 / 75 min / English
Magic Mirror is the first part of a diptych of films that re-enact photographs by the Surrealist artist Claude Cahun (1894-1954) as tableaux vivants and are accompanied by spoken text from Cahun's writing. Out of these intermedial interactions, media, authorship, and the question of when interpretation becomes a creative act are made uncertain.Own Death / Péter Forgács / Hungary / 2007 / 118 min / Hungarian / English subtitles
Dying is a tough job, especially when one must urgently finish some galley proofs. Péter Nádas has evocated this brilliantly in his short novel, "Own Death". And it now has an equally brilliant equivalent in the imagery Péter Forgács has designed for it. Not since Marguerite Duras' "India Song" has a collaboration between the literary and the cinematic been as successful as in Forgács' film of the Nádás story. (Peter Delpeut)
