INTRODUCING CIFF LOVE LETTERS: Valentines day has come early! We’ve thought a lot this year about how we can build connections between audience members and filmmakers within a virtual space. One of the hardest things about this year for filmmakers, is that they have not been able to forge spontaneous connections with audiences and hear from them directly. If you’ve seen a film you have loved, click HERE to write a love letter to a filmmaker!
"Memory is a shifting, fading, partial thing, a net that doesn't catch all the fish by any means, and sometimes catches butterflies that don't exist" - Rebecca Solnit
The film VILLA EMPAIN draws a mental map of a space, as it goes through time.
Concrete marble, brick and steel: little else made by human hands seems as stable, as immutable, as a building. Yet the life of any structure is neither fixed nor timeless. Outliving their original contexts and purposes, buildings are forced to adapt to each succeeding age. To survive, they must become shapeshifters.
Villa Empain’s atmosphere is strange and full of wonders. The camera touches gently upon textures as if to glimpse the moments they witnessed, to read the inner meaning of time. There is a secret to unveil but as with every good secret it evades us, it is elusive, we can never grasp it. The entire film is the attempt to find out about something that we cannot put our fingers on. So we put our fingers on wood, water, marble instead, and feel.
- Year2019
- Runtime24 minutes
- LanguageNo dialogue
- CountryAustria, Belgium, France, Germany
- PremiereNew England Premiere
- DirectorKatharina Kastner
- ProducerNicola S. Sangs
- CinematographerKatharina Kastner
- EditorKastner-List
INTRODUCING CIFF LOVE LETTERS: Valentines day has come early! We’ve thought a lot this year about how we can build connections between audience members and filmmakers within a virtual space. One of the hardest things about this year for filmmakers, is that they have not been able to forge spontaneous connections with audiences and hear from them directly. If you’ve seen a film you have loved, click HERE to write a love letter to a filmmaker!
"Memory is a shifting, fading, partial thing, a net that doesn't catch all the fish by any means, and sometimes catches butterflies that don't exist" - Rebecca Solnit
The film VILLA EMPAIN draws a mental map of a space, as it goes through time.
Concrete marble, brick and steel: little else made by human hands seems as stable, as immutable, as a building. Yet the life of any structure is neither fixed nor timeless. Outliving their original contexts and purposes, buildings are forced to adapt to each succeeding age. To survive, they must become shapeshifters.
Villa Empain’s atmosphere is strange and full of wonders. The camera touches gently upon textures as if to glimpse the moments they witnessed, to read the inner meaning of time. There is a secret to unveil but as with every good secret it evades us, it is elusive, we can never grasp it. The entire film is the attempt to find out about something that we cannot put our fingers on. So we put our fingers on wood, water, marble instead, and feel.
- Year2019
- Runtime24 minutes
- LanguageNo dialogue
- CountryAustria, Belgium, France, Germany
- PremiereNew England Premiere
- DirectorKatharina Kastner
- ProducerNicola S. Sangs
- CinematographerKatharina Kastner
- EditorKastner-List