Nine agonizing years after Morvern Callar, Lynne Ramsay returned to Cannes with another acclaimed literary adaptation. Radically reimagining the nature-or-nurture novel, Ramsay—and star Tilda Swinton—transform the text into a chilling film rightfully venerated for its unforgettable visual language.
A dazzling mix of stop motion and time-lapse editing, this surreal music video for Orbital’s hit “The Box” moves at the speed of light, transforming East London into a futuristic dystopia. Flung out of space, Tilda Swinton mesmerizes as an extraterrestrial visitor stunned by the pace of modern life.
Cycling through 1980s Berlin, Tilda Swinton is a serene presence in Cynthia Beatt’s psychogeographical short, in which movement and stagnation collide. The juxtaposition of placid ponds and lush gardens against concrete buildings and border checks conjures the paradoxes that run alongside the Wall.
Palme d’Or winner Apichatpong Weerasethakul was challenged to make a short film with the unique hand-cranked film camera, the LomoKino. The result, Ashes, is something strange and special: part sideshow, part movie, part diary—all cinema.
Toying with the binary of gender, Tilda Swinton mutates into fashionable clones in Lynn Hershman-Leeson’s ironic reworking of the cyber thriller. As chic costumes and carefully curated sets amp up the hyperreal factor, this sci-fi romp stylishly anticipates the proliferation of digital culture.
