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Starfilm

Starfilm

Johann Lurf
Austria
2017
128 min
International Premiere
Top 10
Tickets & Times
Synopsis

The Viennese filmmaker, artist and part-time projectionist Johann Lurf works on an amusing structuralist oeuvre that revolves around essential questions about perception and projection. In short, how do humans see the universe? This might sound high-flown, but the result is always of a dizzying clarity and free of psychological airs.

This is also the case for his only long film (2017-now), appropriately entitled ★. It is a cosmic trip through film history, composed of chronologically arranged sequences from hundreds of films in which only a starry sky is visible—or more accurately, is depicted.

The fragments are removed from their original context, but retain their original soundtrack. Ranging from the jazzy to the hypnotic, the film’s audio track thus reflects the many ways in which directors have used a star-filled sky.

Meanwhile, Lurf continues to update ★ with recent clips, meaning the once 90-minute film has expanded somewhat—rather like the universe itself.

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Tickets & Times
Mon, november 18
90-minute introduction by the Guest of Honor
13:00 – 16:56
Het Documentaire Paviljoen: De Spiegel

Sat, november 23
17:00 – 19:11
Eye: Cinema 2
Credits
128 min
color / black and white
DCP
Spoken languages: English
Director
    Johann Lurf
    Johann Lurf
Production
    Johann Lurf
    Johann Lurf
Cinematography
    Found footage
    Found footage
Editing
    Johann Lurf
    Johann Lurf
Sound
    Nils Kirchhoff
    Nils Kirchhoff
World Sales
    Sixpackfilm
    Sixpackfilm
Screening copy
    Sixpackfilm
    Sixpackfilm

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