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Il mondo di sotto (The Underworld)

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Benedetta Sani was born in 1994 in Italy. She got a MFA in Multimedia Arts from Urbino Academy of Fine Arts. Her research deals with the moving image in all its forms. Especially towards animation, reuse of pre-existing film, photographic and sound materials and the concept of expanded cinema. Her works were exhibited at 18° Festival international Signes de Nuit (Paris), 55° Pesaro film fest, Avvistamenti XII edition, Blooming Festival, Sonimage 6° exhibition of sounds and images (IT).
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The divine maiden knows the inebriating flower. She discovers that the narcissus radiant beauty is due to the existence of the underground, a world below where the ground was fertilized by a buried seed. Nothing could be born without death, nothing could shine without that unknown darkness.

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I Am Not Your Mother

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Sarnt UTAMACHOTE (1992, Thailand) is a filmmaker and curator. He studied Industrial Design (BA) at Chulalongkorn University, and Cinema Studies and Literature Studies (BA) at the Freie University of Berlin. He currently produces/directs/edits independent short films and commercial videos with interdisciplinary approaches. He is a founder of un.thai.tled, a collective of Thai creatives based in Berlin. His last project was the exhibition “Beyond the kitchen: Stories of Thai Park”, where he curated and researched the archive of Thai migration in Berlin with Bezirksmuseum Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf.
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The touristic voyage gaze does not only create an object but also implies the desires and longings of the subject who stares and grasps. The westerners journey to know about oneself becomes a search for a counter-narrative where the new ‘orient’ is believed to provide the answer to lost origins and a shelter from problems. Many do not recognize the lifestyles of non-western persons, who do not submit to western standards with regard to fashion, self-narratives and occupied space. Many expect non-western persons to be passive and modest, available to offer them care and a sense of belonging. With the neocolonial structures such as global extractivism, backpacking-tourists, international corporates, I aim let this video remind audiences of their possible participations in any of these. I want to convey to audiences the uncanniness of these relationships; as if they were orphaned and were to be adopted by the indigenous ‘mother entities’

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How to Talk to Mom

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Dalija Dozet directed several films of different kinds and genres. This is her first film essay. Following FAMU international programme, she enrolled and graduated film directing at the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb and has been working as a professional screenwriter and director in various forms such as short fiction and documentary films, film education, feature films and commercials. Currently she is in the production stage of her first feature film, a creative documentary ″Lessons from my father″.
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​Sometimes it is necessary to go to the other side of the world to open the topic of intimacy. Sometimes it is necessary not to shoot a single frame to make a film. Sometimes there is an attempt to create closeness by increasing the distance and sometimes the impossibility to do so tries to camouflage itself with an adventure story. Sometimes I think I speak Chinese. In this travel essay written at the height of the epidemic and just after the earthquake, I asked myself a question and intended to find an answer. Now I realize that I don’t know the answer or that it may not exist at all. Now I understand, maybe we are more similar than I think.

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Herbarium No.2

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Tia Bennett is an Edmonton-based video-artist & designer and a recent grad from Ryerson University’s Film and Integrated Digital Media Program.
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This video is a collaborative self-portrait. It makes the connection between our bodies and flora as fragile things, to be preserved for viewing. The footage was run through a random frame selection code, juxtaposing the two forms and then edited in a way that speaks to collection and documentation; the process one goes through when making a herbarium.

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Goodbye to the Things

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Filmmaker, PhD student in Visual Arts at UERJ and Master in Communication at ECO-UFRJ,Ian Schuler exhibited his short film “Goodbye to Things” (2019) at “21º Festival Brasileiro deCinema Universitário” (FBCU), winning the Language Research Award, and in the 3rd EchoBrics Film Festival, in Moscow. He also exhibited the documentary “Cópia Própria” (2017) at”É Tudo Verdade-Festival Internacional de Documentários” in his competitive show (2017,RJ-SP) and Cine Fronteira (2017, BH).Since 2012, he has presented video works at Largo das Artes (RJ, 2016), Escola de Artes Visuaisdo Parque Lage (2013-2014, RJ), Fosso (2018, RJ), A Mesa (2016, RJ), Galeria Alfinete (2013,DF) and in other spaces.
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Small musical film in a spiral rhythm, featuring objects found at the “shopping floor” of Glória, and in the antiques fair in Praça XV, Rio de Janeiro. A still life of a certain material production from different eras

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Faces without Visage

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Hesam Rahmani is an Iranian independent filmmaker, editor, script writer, producer, performance artist and experimental composer. He was born in Tehran in 1992. Ever since he was forced to leave his education in the field of Architecture cause of financial issues, he has dedicated himself full time to the cinema and new media to follow his dreams. He directed Sanctus (2016) / Gross Sum (2017) and MER (2018) MER selected in many festivals like The Poppy Jasper International Film Festival (USA) / Central Michigan International Film Festival (USA) / IMAGE OF THE YEAR – Tassvir Film Festival (Iran)…
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How come a somber silence drowns me and my memory ? How come the faces lose visage in this dark dungeon of memory ?

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F_station

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Born in 1971. in Zrenjanin /Vojvodina, Serbia/. Graduated from the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, Serbia in 1998. /Art course, department: painting/. Post graduated /M.A./ from Interdisciplinary studies at the Department of Digital Art at the University of Arts in Belgrade, Serbia in 2008. Member of Serbian Association of Artists.
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A trigger which inspired this minute, and a kind of an opposite situation of inactivity and silence, was my accidental visit to a train station named “Factory” situated in my hometown in Banat, Serbia during the pandemic and restrictions on movement in spring 2020. The station is bleak and empty for decades, where trains are quite rare and on that spot, nothing has changed.

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Colonello Futurista

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Zagreb, 1967. Vladislav is a media artist and director. He studied film and TV directing at the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb and De Vrije Academie in The Hague. Experimental film, video and sound are his passion since 1988. He started directing various TV shows in 1993.
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With the take-off of a spy balloon from an Italian village geographically located opposite the southern part of the Istrian peninsula, the extremely unusual adventure of air officer Giuseppe Rosignoli begins. The decision to make an overflight mission over the heavily fortified Austro-Hungarian military zone of Pula was made a few months before the Kingdom of Italy entered the First World War in 1915. This fantastic story is the base for an experimental film that analyzes, constructs and explores the interrelationships of different genre patterns and the interesting potentials they possess.

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Cities of Ladies

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Kim Noce is an Italian artist, filmmaker and animator, residing in UK. Her work has been screened in major international film festivals, displayed in art galleries, broadcasted in major TV channels, on streaming platforms and won several prizes around the world.
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“Cities of Ladies” is an immersive poetic animation documentary trilogy created through multi-disciplinary art practices to foster hope, change and promote self-development; through the exploration and recognition of personal views and ideologies. The film is inspired by “The Book of the City of Ladies” by Christine de Pizan (1364 – c. 1430)

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Chapter 2: A Wet Bio Coder

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Better Lovers is the moniker for the evolving artistic practice of Layla Marcelle + Jacob Gallant Raeder. Currently they are applying contemporary dance methodologies to object making. Choreographers designing ceramics and ceramists making films, they are committed to the entanglement of material processes with things, and assemblages of humans and non-humans in complex topographies of being and becoming. The banana does not decay, it just becomes dirt.
Hsin-Yu Chen is a filmmaker working across narrative, experimental, and non-fiction film. His work explores the process of signification, the transitional space of perception, and the pleasure of artifice. Recently he is interested in the alignments and misalignments of subjectivity, perspective, and consciousness in cinema. He holds an MFA in film and media arts at Temple University and is currently based in Philadelphia, PA.
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A voice guides you across a field, under your fingertips and around your soft palate. You will be hypnotized. You will wander and trespass. With calibrated words and spinning objects you will hear what you want to hear, the flashing moments layering themselves seamlessly into consciousness. The wheel is humming gently.