A programme of ruins and resilience, of endnotes and epiphanies. With films by Nathaniel Dorsky, James Edmonds, Laura Huertas Millán, David Dudouit, Natalia Marín, and Hu Bo.

Wavelengths 4: We've Only Just Begun

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80 min
Official
Playing as part of this programme:
Film still for Île d'Ouessant
Île d'Ouessant
Completed posthumously by colleagues from the French artisanal film lab L'Abominable, David Dudouit's Île d'Ouessant is a breathtaking assembly of patient and precise single-frame exposures shot on the sparsely populated Atlantic island.
Film still for A Return
A Return
Replete with sophisticated camera movements and multiple exposures, James Edmond's A Return is an enveloping reflection on the secret, the private, and the unspoken. Structures shift and intermingle, as built and breathing worlds coalesce.
Film still for Colophon (for the Arboretum Cycle)
Colophon (for the Arboretum Cycle)
A coda to a recent suite of films, as much as a singular work in itself, Nathaniel Dorsky's Colophon (For the Arboretum Cycle) is a stunning, stirring triptych that gestures to Chinese landscape scrolls.
Film still for Man in the Well
Man in the Well
Produced under the supervision of master filmmaker Béla Tarr, Hu Bo's Man in the Well is a raw and haunting tale of ruin and desperation, and a fitting companion to his other Festival selection An Elephant Sitting Still.
Film still for The Labyrinth
The Labyrinth
In Laura Huertas Millán's The Labyrinth, a nameless narrator roams and rummages the ruinous jungle compound of a former Colombian drug lord — modeled after the mansion from TV's Dynasty — invoking speculative pasts and futures alongside real histories of violence and decadence.
Film still for Julio Iglesias's House
Julio Iglesias's House
Julio Iglesias's House by Natalia Marín is a rich and sardonic take on the conflation between nationalism, idealism, and the built world, inspired by a 2001 initiative in which Shanghai attempted to build a replica Spain by way of the pop icon's abode.

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