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Devil’s Chapel

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JURY STATEMENT:
Auras, reflections, glares, frictions. What kind of light breaks through the film?
What’s below?
Using archival material, the author creates an extremely dynamic and tense atmosphere with a simple film trick.
The sound contributes in a good way to the creation of the structure and intensifies the experience of the documentary material.
Black light.

AUTHOR CV
Nicolás de Bórtoli was born in Goya, Argentina in 1991. He is a musician and image and sound designer (FADU-UBA). In 2020 he directed the short film ″Capilla del Diablo″ (winner of the CIBA Cilect Prize 2020).
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After finishing building his Chapel, Lorenzo suffered a depression and locked himself in it for three years. When he opens the doors, he calls his children to show what he did: good and evil.

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Io ho fissato il fuoco per sempre

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JURY STATEMENT:
Many looks.
People with ideas in their look
An expression of the eyes in which the inner state is reflected.
What is the difference between looking into the lens and through the lens?
Looking and observing imply active thinking, cognitive action.
Mental effort and fixation of the subject.
Anticipation.
Each of these looks is full of riddles / meanings that we cannot decipher.
 
Visible mental currents towards the camera.
 
Direct view of the camera.
A direct look from history into us, a look that causes discomfort,
Something is expected from us, we know something we don’t want to tell them, disappointment.
Workers, peasants, citizens, protesters.
Views and hopes for a better future.
 
This film makes us universal witnesses.

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Salvatore Insana attended the University of Roma Tre concluding his studies in 2010 with a paper on the concept of Useless. With Elisa Turco Liveri, actress and performer he has created in 2011 the collective Dehors/Audela, producing video-theatrical works, audiovisual projects, site-specific installations and photographic investigation, experimental workshops. He continued his research in motion pictures, photography and other media forms, interested in moving bodies in their elusiveness, in their metamorphic and tragic ability to elude us, interested to probe deeper on the limits of vision, on the “visual spectra”, and collaborating with several sound artists, composers and theater companies. His works has been screened at several institutions and festivals around the world.
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A collective hypnosis, an invisible, subliminal enemy, an impalpable energy on the verge of exploding. The gaze of the filmed subject, that of the camera and that of the spectator trigger a participatory obsession, made of eyes in action. Eyes that stare, emptiness or neighbor. Crossings. Missed encounters. Sudden starts. Between fear and desire. Is the threat out of range? If there is a subjective, it is that of whom? Ways to see. To be aware of being seen. There is someone, off the pitch, who acts as an underground device, a mechanism not revealed to the viewer’s eye. Someone threatens or affects the quiet of our vision and taking your eyes off too early, you know, could be fatal.

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Stray Home

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Luca Tornato (b. 1997 in São Paulo, BR) is currently studying at the ArtScience department at the Royal Academy of Arts, The Hague (NL). With a background in electrical engineering, and heavily influenced by expanded cinema and early computer graphics, he hoards old analog video equipment giving them a second and final chance to create videoart, oscillographics and installations.
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STRAY HOME is a short film and a exploration of the reality in which the world was torn into during the COVID-19 global pandemic.

This moment of crisis is intensifying the
polarization of people and the state, misinformation is institutionally spread by my brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro and the overall system is going towards a failure; we are forced to live by negligent decision-makers.

STRAY HOME is a study on these themes. The works of Marshall McLuhan (the concept of the
Global Village) and Nam June Paik (the electronic manipulation of imagery as means of media and political criticism) served as a major influence for this work. Errors are introduced in the video chain, either at the video signal or by capturing images on a tube tv while changing shutter speeds on the camera and so on. A collection of quotes and footages from political leaders is sequentially corrupted, recaptured and merged with a human-like character, forced to walk among these errors.

Misinformation encoded in data transmission is key in a post-truth world.

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Ramerrame

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Inês T. Alves (Portugal, 1987) holds a MA in Cultural Narratives, completed in the New University of Lisbon (FCSH), Santiago de Compostela University and Bergamo University. She has a MA in Documentary Film from the University of the Arts London (Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation’s Scholarship). Inês is a filmmaker, video editor and cultural producer. She is experienced in developing film workshops for children and youngster. Her films were exhibited in international film festivals and exhibitions like: INDIELISBOA; PORTO/POST/DOC; QUEER LISBOA; IN THE PALACE Short-Film Festival Sofia (Bulgaria); URBAN LENS Bengaluru (India); FEST Espinho; FUSO – International Video-Art Festival Lisbon; Her latest short documentary, Around Corners, won the New Cinema Award in Porto/Post/Doc Festival.
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A visual and rhythmic composition based on the repetition of daily gestures and the nuances of routine actions, which we develop mechanically, like a loop that sometimes is physical, sometimes mental.

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SELF

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Dina Karadžić (1986) — Born and resides in Zagreb, CRO. Mastered in Art (MFA, Sculpture) from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb in 2012. A member of the Croatian Association of Artists since 2011, of Croatian Association of Professional Artists since 2018, and the Art Director of Format C art org (an artist organization focused on digital art, experimental multimedia research and collaborative creation) since 2014. (Co)works as an independent lecturer; active as an organizer and an artist in the areas of visual | digital | net art; works in stop-motion animation and character design; employed 2017-19 by the ACC Attack NGO as a project assistant, and was a Web-Based Media Fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude in 2018-19. A member of CTHR workgroup and a Board Member at the Operation City Association Alliance since 2019.
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A short experimental built by compressing a personal archive of own and other’s images into one media file. The sequence consists of all the photos found in the images folders of the author’s device at the time (Sept 2020), both private and public content included. The files are pillarboxed into a fragmented “slideshow” video and then databent; i.e. the code of the video is edited to re/deconstruct the video into a colorful and displaced fusion of self and others selves. The video does not progress by a single narrative but in multiple asynchronous happenings, scattered by the deconstructed code of the file, interleaved by both time and space (the sequence is defined by the date the media files were delivered to or created by the origin device, regardless of their original purpose). The whole process is created by CLI software, text-editing and simple processes automation.

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Your Security

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Elias ZX’s experimental, narrative and documentary short films have found recognition around the world. They have won awards in South Korea, they’ve been available in public libraries in Berlin. They have screened in Egypt, Australia, India, Serbia, Brazil and back around to Time Square in New York City.
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A film about romance, scams, and romance scams

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Unreal

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Emerging video artist, working primarily in digital video and photography. My work focuses on concepts of time and space – abstract representations of spaces and people with a particular interest in how the three-dimensional practice of film is presented in a two-dimensional format. Currently living and working in Sydney, Australia
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Humanity has long been observed, studied and synthesised with our technology. As we move ever closer to a technological singularity, the line between carbon and artificial based life becomes ever more blurred. ‘Unreal’ utilises 85 individual AI generated portraits created through a Generative Adversarial Network.

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Traces

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Alex Volz has been working for film and television for almost 10 years all over Germany. He was born in Heidelberg (1991) and is working as a Camera and Steadicam Operator on Sets of TV-Series, Feature Films and advertisement productions, but has been producing and directing his own creative projects since adolescence. Together with his „Tausendsassa Filmproduktion“ partner Lisa Niederauer he gave his passion for filmmaking a new platform. TRACES is the fifth project the two filmmakers developed and produced together.
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We produce a lot of waste. We know this. And because we like the way our traces (not so) magically disappear behind us, we tend to come up with lots of great reasons why we are okay with that. But what’s left does not vanish, we just decide it to be out of our sight. What if our traces stayed visible? What would we tell ourselves instead?

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The Sound of Sinking Ships

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Oona Taper is a Philadelphia-based visual artist and experimental animator. Her style captures both whimsical and chaotic energy, utilizing distorted yet recognizable figures, a strong use of sound, and a mixed media approach to address themes of intimacy, technology, physical space, and subjective experiences. Her video work uses loops as a key formal element and highlights the potential materiality of moving image. Taper’s short films have been screened at national and international film festivals including; The IVY Film Festival in Providence RI, OUTsider Fest in Austin, Texas, and Locomoción, an Experimental Animation Festival in Mexico City. Her video installations and works on paper have been showcased in galleries in Boston, Philadelphia, and Rome. She is part of the video art collective Krissy Talking Pictures, which curates video and performance events in Philadelphia.
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Clarity and obfuscation, entropy and order- explored through movement, music, video and film. The Sound of Sinking S hips is a dance film that flows across live action, animation, and hand processed and chemically altered film.

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The Lumière brothers

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Graduated from Ornina Institute of art/ Damascus, managed by Naila Al-Atrash, Amal Omran, Yasser Abdel-Latif and RaafatAlzagot (2006). Participated in several theatre workshops supervised by Tal’at Alsamawi Participated in several scenario workshops supervised by Mowafak Masood From 1999 until 2009 participated in several theatrical shows for children In 2009 they created the idea of ” Room Theatre”, in French “Theater de chambre”. They had shows in their own room, which is named by Guinness World Records as the smallest theater in the world.
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Lumiere brothers, now