International Festival Signs of the Night - Paris
Festival internatinal Signes de nuit - Paris
 

21e Festival international Signes de Nuit - Paris / 29 Septembre - 8 Octobre 2023
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MOMENTS OF BEING

September 29th, 2023 - 10 pm
Collége néerlandaise - Cité universitaire
75014 Paris


 

River of Time

Felix van Cleeff
Netherlands / 2023 / 1:39:00


In 2014 independent filmmaker Felix van Cleeff sets out into the world, filming the lives of those around him in a highly personal manner, like a painter with the camera. From numerous hours of unique footage that he captured throughout the years with many people in various countries and languages, he created this visionary and eclectic work. 'River of Time' is the first part in a longer poetic film cycle, but may also be viewed as a feature film in its own right. Everyday reality, the fragility of mankind and a rich variety of perspectives merge into a transcendental whole. Van Cleeff has sculpted a film poem, an expression of the inner life rather than a narrative film. With its fluid visual form and atmospheric sound design the film is an overwhelming sensorial experience and an impressionistic, near hallucinatory portrayal of our broken modern world, in search of healing. 'River of Time' is above all a spirited and continuous quest for moments of wonder, the sublime in the mundane and the possibility of a radically free and open form of filmmaking. A cinematic labyrinth that invites the viewer to wander.

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