Author: gibaster

program 2021

I don’t want to be a human anymore

Post author By gibaster
Post date December 9, 2021

Martina Selva

SYNOPSIS

“The short shows the evolution of the director, from her childhood to the moment she decides she doesn’t want to be a human anymore, resolution both political and provocative.
Her story is told alongside that of humanity, the relationship between humans and animals, man’s taxonomic obsession who makes us constantly classify, define and ultimately exclude.
The short is an ironic outlook on issues such as the anitispecist critic and the search of an identity.”

program 2021

Hiperrealidades

Post author By gibaster
Post date December 9, 2021

Carlos S. Peña

SYNOPSIS

Understanding ‘hiperreality’ as an inability of consciousness to distinguish reality, this work tries to represent the seek of a memory, a longing, which finds itself within a virtual realm; a dilema about the connection between the outside and the inside, the imagination and reality.

program 2021

GAZE

Post author By gibaster
Post date December 9, 2021

Anna Skuratovski, Lea Sophia Mair, Larissa Falk

SYNOPSIS

“Gaze evolved out of a personal need to examine and question the fetishization of the female body and its parts.
Rotating between roles and perspectives of looking and being looked at, we analyze the gaze of others as much as our own – choosing not not only to be looked at but to gaze back, representing and reclaiming our own power.”

program 2021

Events Meant to Be Forgotten

Post author By gibaster
Post date December 9, 2021

Marko Tadic

SYNOPSIS

Filmed on 16mm film, this visual expression is rooted in archival materials, drawing its inspiration from a poem by Hans Magnus Enzensberger. It speaks of forgotten people, their lives and their deeds. These two Archives were found at a flea market in Zagreb. One is of a famous architect and the other of a famous composer. The film ponders on this occurrence, as well as on the vanishing and forgetfulness of humans.

program 2021

Dislocations

Post author By gibaster
Post date December 9, 2021

Anastasia Shubina, Timofey Glinin

SYNOPSIS

Underground hand-developed film, shot on 16 mm camera, represents a deeply personal attitude of film directors to St. Petersburg, their hometown. The city appears as a place of the Unconscious, where obscure pictures of the houses interpenetrate with images of abstract art, in parallel with pictures of destruction of the city represented by the frames of II World War newsreel. The film is made as a trip where the real city walk transforms into the mindflow, depicting the play of memory, phantasms and traumatic history.

program 2021

Deeply Absurd Lucidity

Post author By gibaster
Post date December 9, 2021

Sammy Sayed

SYNOPSIS

A man trapped in a limbo of absurd and randomly projected visions that seem to be driven by an obscure shapeshifter who has hacked into his mental and emotional intelligence.

program 2021

Dear Aki

Post author By gibaster
Post date December 9, 2021

Nina Kurtela

SYNOPSIS

Presented in the form of a series of fictional letters sent from Nina Kurtela to Aki Kaurismäki read against a backdrop of atmospheric exterior shots, ‘Dear Aki’ is an experimental visual-narrative essay on the nature of identity, nationality and belonging in the globalized world.

program 2021

Crash Disco

Post author By gibaster
Post date December 9, 2021

SYNOPSIS

This video gathers some of the results of a 10-day Glitch Art residency production workshop organised by Format C & KA-MATRIX. The work is created in a collaborative process of recording, remixing, rescanning, sharing and editing own and group work while discussing and practicing various topics such as free culture and public work, local and online communities, ekphrastic poetry, transcoding and experimenting with both digital and analog media.

program 2021

Cities I Haven’t Been To

Post author By gibaster
Post date December 9, 2021

Damir Cucic

SYNOPSIS

An abstract travelogue around the skylines of cities I have not been to. These are dystopian virtual travels from Sao Paulo and Dubai to Dhaka and beyond. The images of cities might be abstract, but I have recognized and picked them out of hundreds of thousands of photograms. Far from tourist postcards, these mental images stem from my knowledge and my prejudices, visualized in a flash of abstract figures.

program 2021

Beauty & the Beasts

Post author By gibaster
Post date December 9, 2021

Aggie Pak Yee Lee

SYNOPSIS

That night, a lady met a group of lovely beasts – gigantic slimy cheesy ones.