Recover

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posted on 2024-06-04, 02:43 authored by DC De Bruyn

Recover splits its two meanings and pits then against each other. A Janus-faced melting pot of dust, sentence fragments, gestures and flash frames. This Found Footage Film is a technological situation, a black hole devouring itself. It is a cancer in denial of its own narrative. Recover salvages the lingering fragments of a lost indigenous history through the very act of burial and registers the subliminal emblems of that abuse.

History

Creation date

2017-01-01

Language

eng

Notes

This entry reprieves Recover, whose multiple screenings in 2018 enhances its international imapct and its winner of the Night Award at Signes du Nuit in Bangkok also enhances its impact. The Night Award is given for a film that "The Night Award honors films, which are able to balance ambiguity and complexity characterized by enigmatic mysteriousness and subtleness, which keeps mind and consideration moving." This corresponds to my larger strategy to use abstraction to talk about traumas hidden underneath the surface. In this case the historical aboriginal massacres still denied and invisible to some sections of the Australian community.

Publication classification

J2 Minor original creative work

Copyright notice

[2018, Bangalore Short Film Festival/Signes Du Nuit Film Festival]

Extent

Publisher

Bangalore Short Film Festival/Signes Du Nuit Film festival Bangkok/Signes Du Nuit Paris

Place of publication

Bangalore, India/Bangkok, Thailand/Paris, France

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Keywords

abstraction trauma experimental animation pattern recognition 190201 Cinema Studies 190204 Film and Television 950104 The Creative Arts (incl. Graphics and Craft)950204 The Media School of Communication and Creative Arts 3605 Screen and digital media 3601 Art history, theory and criticism 3606 Visual arts