BFI London Film Festival Experimenta Short Film Programme: When Statues Die

Two films on the life and afterlife of objects. Includes films by Ed Atkins and Duncan Campbell.

The Trick Brain
Dir Ed Atkins. UK 2013. 16min
André Breton’s flat in Paris at 42 Rue Fontaine and a journey through the father of Surrealism’s collection of art and ethnographic objects.

It For Others
Dir Duncan Campbell. UK 2013. 50min
Reflections on the life, death and value of objects inspired by Chris Marker and Alain Resnais’ 1953 essay film Les Statues meurent aussi.