![]() ![]() ![]() Undoubtedly inspired by the maps included in Christie’s novel, Lichter builds a film that reads as a homage and parody of Lev Manovich’s database concept – pushing to the limit the screen saturation of desktop documentaries, and itself becoming a combinatory experiment in the study of styles. The screen becomes both a magician’s hat and an architect’s demented dream, brimming with an endless parade of images (between, within, amongst, around other images). Selected for IFFR’s Harbour programme, the film will be a feast for lovers of repurposed footage and visual spatialisation. Using video-game designs as prime material, as well as fragments from 100 films (of the silent and early sound period), The Mysterious Affair at Styles presents a curious fusion between past and future, and between the iconic power of the archival image and the possibilities of modern technology. While a Hungarian voice-over drives us through the steps of a classical whodunnit, the baroque visuals enact a playful dance with the dense stream of words – alternately poetic and mysterious, cheeky and ironic. In it, we meet Hastings who, on a visit to the country. ![]() ![]() The Mysterious Affair at Styles takes its title from the first published novel by Agatha Christie (detective Hercule Poirot’s debut), with the text serving as narrative basis for this sumptuous experimental collage-film by Péter Lichter. The Mysterious Affair At Styles is set during the First World War and is Agatha Christies debut novel. ![]()
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