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  • Film for Invisible Ink, Case No. 142: Abbreviation for Dead Winter (Diminished by 1,794)

  • David Gatten

Country: USA
Year: 2008
Runtime: 13 minutes
Format: Black and White/16mm
Rating: G

This film plays in the Wavelengths 5: Une Catastrophe Programme with the following films:

 The Secret School - Marina Gioti
Une Catastrophe - Jean-Luc Godard
Le Streghe, femmes entre elles - Jean-Marie Straub
A Letter to Uncle Boonmee - Apichatpong Weerasethakul
PUBLIC SCREENINGS
Sunday September 1306:30PM JACKMAN HALL - AGO Add Film to MyTIFF Filmlist Buy Now

Description

David Gatten’s Abbreviation for Dead Winter (USA) from his Invisible Ink series, captures passages from Darwin’s On the Origin of Species as they are lifted from the page, resulting in residual ink spots and fibres that evoke metaphors of migration and distances.

Cadillac People's Choice Award