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Places that do not exist

Josipa Henizelman
Josipa Henizelman was born in 1998 in Osijek. She is currently a graduate student on graduate study of visual arts at the Academy of Arts and Culture in Osijek, majoring in painting. So far, Josipa has exhibited at about thirty group exhibitions and five independent ones in; Osijek, Zagreb, Novi Sad, Rovinj, Split, Vinkovci, Požega… Since 2013 she has been a member of the art group Kontrast, and in 2022 becomes a member of the Kinoklub Zagreb and the Croatian Academic Association. Her experimental film “Places that do not exist” received seven awards, some of them are also at international festivals, of which Josipa singles out the GREEN Award DCP for the best Croatian film in the program of the 25 FPS Festival. Also, she is a winner of Dean’s Award in 2019 and Rector’s Award in 2022. She participated in numerous workshops and actively exhibits works in the media of painting, graphics, photography and movie.
SYNOPSIS
The film Places that do not exist is an experimental film that deals with space. In it, I shot my paintings through water, which I brought to life with the help of film media; they become moving places, transforming from one to the other, and displaying their constant change that evokes different emotions. Places that alternate do not require any identification with real places, they are places that do not exist, that live in the subjective experience of the observer and that are only his. My motives and inspiration for this work were nature and my childhood. I remember my childhood as a very happy period, the transience of which I am not aware of as a child, and I associate nature with the place where I grew up. Because I always think that the image is fleeting, the memory changes, but the feeling I associate with childhood is always permanent, and I wanted to convey that in the film. The film is treated like a canvas and without any technical interventions it establishes intermediality with painting, emphasizing the emotions that each of the places carries.

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RE-MEMBERING: Meditation on a Triptych

Amra Hećo
After almost 15 years in radio broadcasting and television production, Amra returns to her favorit format – documentary film. She spends her time between teaching and working on her own artistic projects.
SYNOPSIS
A chance encounter with a home video from 1983 of a pre-war Bosnian town triggers unexpected emotions as the filmmaker recognizes her grandfather among the people in the film. There is something particular about the way he looks back at the camera as he is being filmed which invites further inquiry. Through a narrative meditation about the encounter between the key protagonists – the videographer, the granddaughter and the grandfather –unexpected gifts unfold one moment, one memory and one person at a time. The present is seen through the eyes of the past so that those who have passed on can reclaim the right to their own image.

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Homesick Lungs

Felix Klee
Felix Klee (*1990) lives and works in Munich where he currently studies directing for documentary film at University of Television and Film Munich.
From 2020 – 2022 he serves as an advisory board member at Locarno Film Festival.
Together with Gisela Carbajal Rodríguez he received the 12-month media art scholarship by Kirch foundation and HFF Munich for 2022.
In 2019 he received Kirch foundation’s project founding grant.
He is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts Munich where he studied time-based media under Prof. Julian Rosefeldt and painting under Prof. Pia Fries. He studied painting under Prof. Thomas Hartmann at the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg and was a guest student at Universidad de las Artes Aguascalientes Mexico.
SYNOPSIS
You can’t bring back a dead horse, but there are ways to step into a place that was lost.
“Homesick Lungs” is an experimental farewell. The film delves into the lungs of Sheila, the dying horse, and the history of a sold family farm. 3D animations, screen recordings and documentary footage combine to form an essay on reconstructed memory. In the end, the wind brushes through virtual nettles.

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Crater

Adina Camhy
Adina Camhy is an artist, filmmaker and music producer. She studied architecture at TU Graz (AT) and UPV València (ES) before taking up her Master Critical Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (AT).
Based on precise observations of the existing and in narrative approaches, she deals with topics such as the politics of memory, representation and the political in public and private spaces. Her works move in a broad spectrum between artistic-scientific research, film, media art, sound and performance. She works alone, in collaborations and collectives.
Her first short film Mensch Maschine Or Putting Parts Together (2019) was screened at film festivals worldwide and received several awards, most recently “Best short film in the Limite programme”, São Paulo International Short Film Festival (BR, 2020).
She produces music for films (How to Disappear/Total Refusal, 2020), performances (Mitsouko & Mitsuko / Michikazu Matsune, 2021; Pontifex / Navaridas Deutinger, 2017), or audio walks.
Her work is shown internationally in exhibitions, festivals and screenings.
SYNOPSIS
The film explores the phenomenon of different forms of craters. It condenses into a narrative form around the Ramon Crater in the Negev Desert in Israel and its counterpart of the same name on the moon.
In an aesthetic of digital geoinformation systems, found footage and animated photo collages, the digital shifting, zooming in and out becomes a performance with inherent changes of perspective.