Davi Mello, Deborah Perrotta
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A forgotten house is re-inhabited while a strange presence approaches.
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All the Faces I Love Look Alike
Author: gibaster
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Adieu, Corpus!
Alexander Isaenko
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Adieu, Corpus’ is a short film about versatility of human body. Body is the flesh, the corpus, the frame for organs, the assembly of limbs, the collection of rules, and the limits by which we define ourselves. The film shows the body as a place, and not as a subject. It is travelling along its borders, groping the way in time through events, rather than linearly, balancing at the edge of the rules, until once…crosses its own limitations and steps out of the frame. The body physically dies converting into virtual one.
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A Time to Mend
Raffaele Rezzonico
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A Time to Mend is a research on the living body that plays and suffers, in the tension between the universalising geometric digitalization and the individual residue that is always specific, analogical, refractory.
46 different times, as many possibilities to instantly improvise a way to go through the empty time of a convalescence, are brought together in a single space of vision.
A space-out-of-time that once was sacred and that nowadays has become scientific, biological.
46 different times, as many possibilities to instantly improvise a way to go through the empty time of a convalescence, are brought together in a single space of vision.
A space-out-of-time that once was sacred and that nowadays has become scientific, biological.
Iva Gavrilović
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Desktop film essay in which the last pandemic year is in reflection. Thinking takes place within the image frame. A year passes quickly and silently. One sound gives a twitch that changes the view of the image.
The idea is to connect the state of mind during the pandemic with the last memories and to imagine a new view of the world.
Few photographs are from my last trip to Paris and the last shot of Google maps is the possible place in Paris I wanted to visit but never had a chance.
The only sound you can hear is the earthquake that was present around Zagreb (Croatia) during the pandemic.
The idea is to connect the state of mind during the pandemic with the last memories and to imagine a new view of the world.
Few photographs are from my last trip to Paris and the last shot of Google maps is the possible place in Paris I wanted to visit but never had a chance.
The only sound you can hear is the earthquake that was present around Zagreb (Croatia) during the pandemic.
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45”
Lucija Oroz
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Fear is part of our identity, it is our everyday life and we experience it in different ways. We grow up with it, and over time we overcome or suppress it. However, it is always present, transforms itself into something else, follows our steps, and enters our dreams. It is said that fear has big eyes, they grow where we meet the unknown and then, to some aspects of reality, such as time, we give unrealistic proportions. Only when the fear is overcome, the eyes shrink and the picture becomes clearer.
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√
Gesa Kolb, Till Gombert
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“Partnerships often maneuver somewhere between turmoil and reconciliation, distance and togetherness.
In the experimental silent film “”√””, the partners Gesa Kolb and Till Gombert reflect on complex process of growing together within long-term relationships. “
each object is created for direct or indirect modifications of corporeality. completely different scenarios are permissible – whether it be total filtering of incoming signals and annoying impulses, or the conversion of deferred emotional experience into physical sensations, the generation of multi-component structures based on human and non-human substances, the transformation of tactile practices into textual meanings. the algorithm for creating these programmable masses is an intuitively evolving system, the purpose of which is to form the streams of random physiological and psychological impressions into an integral but plastic network of images and meanings.
In the experimental silent film “”√””, the partners Gesa Kolb and Till Gombert reflect on complex process of growing together within long-term relationships. “
each object is created for direct or indirect modifications of corporeality. completely different scenarios are permissible – whether it be total filtering of incoming signals and annoying impulses, or the conversion of deferred emotional experience into physical sensations, the generation of multi-component structures based on human and non-human substances, the transformation of tactile practices into textual meanings. the algorithm for creating these programmable masses is an intuitively evolving system, the purpose of which is to form the streams of random physiological and psychological impressions into an integral but plastic network of images and meanings.
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Chaytu (Fantasma)
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Film narration built with intentionally limited procedures. Static shots, narration in the text, and singing function in a simple and meditative way as a comforting tool. Throughout the film, we are faced with a barrier of dense and impassable vegetation. The sky is almost never seen. Human voices and flute sounds echo through the noise overpowering the birdsong. The serenity and harmony of the rain-soaked landscape dominates the film, making the human presence spectral and absorbing it into the all-encompassing reality of the forest. This is a film that would surely fit a big screen well.
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Ecuadorian director, screenwriter and producer. His debut documentary “La Tola Box” had its theatrical release on Ecuador’s main theaters and was screened at festivals such as Havana IFF, Mostra de Sao Paulo, EDOC and FILMAR (Switzerland). His first feature film “Sansón” was selected for the Amiens Writing Fund and the Produire au Sud lab at the 3 Continents Nante’s Film Festival, both in France; as well as in Ibermedia’s “Hero’s Journey” workshop, held in La Paz, Bolivia. The project won Ecuador National Film Institute’s Film Fund in Development and Production and Ibermedias Co-production Film Fund. It was also selected by Film In Progress (Ventana Sur), Bolivia Lab’s Finalization Lab, Malaga’s IFF WIP and FIC Viña’s WIP where it was awarded first prize. “Sansón” is currently finished and about to begin its distribution stage. Nowadays, he is developing the scripts for “I shall not speak of death”, winner of Ecuador’s National Film Fund in the Writing category; and the documentary essay “The Cougar’s Jaguar”. In 2021 he will direct the short film “The Sacred fire of the dead” as an exploration of the themes and aesthetics he plans to develop in “I shall not speak of death”. This short film was the winner of Ecuador’s National Fund as well. Pavel studied film at the National Film and Documentary School of Argentina at the Popular University of Mother’s of Plaza de Mayo. He also studied music, specializing in piano. In 2000 he won the International Poetry Award “Valentin Arteaga” from Spain. He often teaches in labs and workshops about screenwriting and directing in several countries and directs the Cosmonautalab. He is the conductor of “Tropical Framing” a radio show about Latin American film broadcasted in San Jose, Costa Rica.
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A furious and silent hurricane is about to reach a village in the Latin American tropical forest. A grandmother and her grandson are elected to travel and give themselves as offerings. Sacred songs and an arduous walk revive the hope of the commune to survive the natural disaster.
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Retired
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Personal things vibrate memories of accumulated time. In them, by using the imprinted traces of life, they are testifying of the former human presence, just like analog devices for recording nostalgia.
A film thinks about people, things, abandoned objects, that draw memories, events and places. in a gentle and poetic way.
A film thinks about people, things, abandoned objects, that draw memories, events and places. in a gentle and poetic way.
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Vojtěch Domlátil is Czech independent filmmaker, animator, illustrator, graphic designer and teacher. In his last films he works with non-narrative possibilities of stopmotion, oscilating between genres of animation, documentary and experiment. He lead the studio of animation in the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, Czech Republic, together with Jiří Barta
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Retired life inside the lonely family cottage. A shake made from love, care and family history. Short poetical anidoc using simple stopmotion animation. A tribute to my parents and their stuff they left there.
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The well-known and once relaxing scenes now have a completely new meaning. The sea is no longer a sea for swimming and diving, it is a sea of drowning and loss. Racial and class segregation is underlined under all elements of life like the ambient sound present in the film. Motives of tourist utopias that pass from the sphere of the known to the sphere of the eerie.
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Roger Horn is an unconventional filmmaker and professor at HMKW Berlin in the Visual and Media Anthropology program. His PhD in Social Anthropology titled, “Memories, material culture, and methodology: Employing multiple filmic formats, forms, and informal archives in anthropological research among Zimbabwean migrant women” included several accompanying films which have screened widely at festival such as the 65th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, 2020 Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, and the 21st & 22nd Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festivals.
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Upon completion of his PhD and relocation to Germany all that filmmaker Roger Horn wanted was a relaxing family holiday in Spain, but he quickly became consumed with troubling emotions while swimming in the site of countless migrant deaths, the Mediterranean Sea. Adding to his concerns a trip into Barcelona with his wife revealed a city plastered in banners demanding Catalonian independence, cash machines covered in protest slogans, and African migrant vendors constantly under threat from local police.
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The film is a little masterpiece. Perfect in every performance segment. Precise and seductive compositions, suggestive color-soaked scenes and visualized emotions, longing and regret. A feeling of nostalgia that gently pulsates through the film image. Sound and noises are almost coming out of their ambience, creating a tactile sense of presence.
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Yann Pichot was born 1992 in Brittany, France. At 18 years old, he directed his first short film. During his film studies in Rennes, he directed LA PASSEUSE, selected at Brest European Film Festival and which won the Cinematography Prize in Angoulême. Always in search of aesthetic authenticity, in 2019 he shot REGARDE PASSER MON FANTÔME (See my ghost passing away). Alongside his personal projects, he works at Aurora Films.
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Between dreams and nightmares, Lilith sees the ghost of her lost love.
