From the Archives of the Red Cross

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From the Archives of the Red Cross
NR 1 hr 10 minDocumentary
Begun in a threeweek seminar at the Geneva University of Art and Design HEAD in October 2016 seventeen of us began an excavation together immersing ourselves in a selection of Red Cross shorts made over nearly a century in countries round the world This nearly wordless featurelength ensemble has five partschapters The Man Who Stopped Time Greece Disappearances Switzerland Photo Shoot Location Yemen Yemen Beirut Grammar Lebanon and Mine Clearing Mozambique Each chapter adopts a different formal strategy in order to open up a new conversation with these picture remains sometimes scribbling over the pictures or representing the material as a series of friezes fading every shot or slowly accumulating them The hope is time travel to venture to the other side of the image

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Original Language:English