- [Pierre-Alexandre Despatis suffers for his cinema. Now covering his second edition, our official festival reporter and multi-function human cyborg will provide us the sights (plenty of cool pics!), the sounds, the reviews and the occasional interviews of the still very young 5th edition of the Tribeca film festival. Below are some of Pierre-Alexandre’s reviews in easy to read, insightful capsule form. Enjoy!] Mist In The Palm TREETribeca's selection of experimental films has been a wealthy bunch this year. This anti-film by Carlos Molinero and Lola Salvador relates the biographical flashes of Santiago Bergson and focus on a few events that that marked his life. As his daughter notes, "It's as if he never existed"-- no one remembers him! Of course, Bergson never existed and even his daughter is played by three separate actresses living in three different places. The poetry of the film is very reminiscent of Chris Marker's La Jetee with remarks like "I have photographed the future" and a very interesting montage of still images and archival footage dating from the first half of the century. The film is composed of 6 segments. While some are better than others, overall the film, and especially the third segment which imitates a silent film with inter-titles, is purely exquisite. The
- 5/7/2006
- IONCINEMA.com
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