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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.

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C-19

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Philippos Kappa is a visual artist working mainly with video art. He approaches art as a metaphorical social examination. His work explores the interconnections between image and data and investigates how data influences the understanding of the visual representation, as well as how changes in the twenty-first century, such as mass media and the vast amount of information, transform the way we see and interpret the visual word. Kappa was born in Athens, Greece. He studied at Middlesex University, BA. Fine Art, Central Saint Martins, MA. Fine Art in London, UK. He has participated in more than 50 exhibitions and festivals around the world, and today he is a researcher at Tokyo Geidai University at the GA program
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The following work is a video that I produced as a metaphorical social examination of the current COVID-19 situation. It explores how fragile the systems that are currently built into society are. The sound of the piece is a medical sound recorder of the lungs of a COVID-19 patient when he is breathing; the visual part in slow motion is a group of people that have collapsed, one over the other, and are trying to breathe and escape under the pressure that they are receiving from one another. The original footage in my work is from archive material, which I have processed. This work investigates the relationship between the individual and the group’s behaviour how they exist, coexist and interact.

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Black&White

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Eluned Zoe Aiano is a British filmmaker, video editor and translator whose work is generally centred on Central and Eastern Europe. In 2017 she was one of the artists selected by London Short Film Festival for their “With Teeth” programme, which supported and presented the short I Have a Song to Sing You. Her first feature, Flotacija, is also currently in production and won the Balkan Documentary Centre Discoveries pitch at Dokufest, Kosovo, 2018. She also writes about film and is a regular contributor to the East European Film Bulletin. Anna Benner is an artist working in the media of animation, drawing and installation. Her work deals with psychology and emotions, often using hand-drawn rotoscope animation. Her animated short films have screened worldwide and won prizes at international film festivals like Annecy, Encounters and Stuttgart Trickfilmfestival.
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The small Czech town of Třeboň found itself at the centre of unexpected international attention when the world-wide press picked up on an obscure urban legend from World War Two, some 70 years after the event. The story in question involves nurses, Nazis, seduction and syphilis, but no-one can agree on what really happened. Black&White pieces this legend together through a collage of interviews with a group of locals. The film explores how the story came about in the first place, and how it evolved after it ended up in the news. Their reflections are visualised through a combination of excerpts from the history of cinema, together with animation, problematising the types of tropes and conventions used to depict the roles of women.