Project Detail

A Woman Returns from a Journey

Synopsis

A mysterious woman travels through the threatening territory of film noir and the enigmas of philosophy.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2016 - Experimenta Strand

Details

Year
2016
Type of project
Shorts
Running time
11 mins
Format
Digital Video, Super 8
Director
Ruth Novaczek
Screenwriter
Ruth Novaczek
Director of Photography
Ruth Novaczek
Principal cast
Ayca Ciftci, Jelena Stojkovic, Linda Salerno
Featuring
Eileen Myles, reading her poem 'Dissolution'

Production Status

Production Company

UK, US coproduction

Sales Company

c/o Ruth Novaczek

Page updates

This page was last updated on 12th May 2025. Please let us know if we need to make any amendments or request edit access by clicking below.

See also

You may also be interested in other relevant projects in the database.

Eat the Dust Trilogy: Footnote; Crime Scene; Eat the Dust Eat the Dust Trilogy: Footnote; Crime Scene; Eat the Dust

Director: Ruth Novaczek

Year: 2018

Three films made from found footage, video diaries, performance and to-camera discourse. Music and narrative voiceover connect the chapters searching for subjectivity through various existential backdrops; from responses to love with addiction, pain and release, to a detective story set in Jaffa and Tel Aviv, and finally a dance across Europe in search of a happy ending. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2018 - Experimenta Strand -World premiere

An image from a microscope Hematology

Director: Ben Young

Year: 2026

The alien cosmos of microscopy becomes the setting for a posthumous dialogue: an exploration of the unspoken fallout of the pandemic years.

Black and white close up of woman holding a film slide of planet Saturn in front of face while holding microphone to mouth The Case Against Space

Director: Graeme Arnfield

Year: 2023

In the days leading up to Christmas 1973 three astronauts enacted the first labour strike in outer space. Reconstructed from transcripts in claustrophobic close-up via CCTV system, THE CASE AGAINST SPACE is a real time investigation, dramatically collapsing embodied historical reenactment and speculative essayistic research - forming a collective testimony on struggle amongst the stars, of fights past, present and those yet to come. Official Selection Open City Documentary Festival 2026