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The End is Nigh: Storytelling at the End of the World
A single day, beginning with a torrential downpour followed by an eerie calm amidst a gently humming environment. Filmmaker Bobby Lovett takes new steps with his artistic experience in an attempt to capture the sights and sounds we often ignore, and hone in on the constant flow of life happening in our backyards.
Shadow Kid
The term “shadow children” is largely unknown in our society. It is about children who live with a terminally ill sibling. The entire attention of the parents is directed to the sick child. The healthy children are in the “shadow”, they take on tasks for which they are still far too young, they fill the family gaps that open up due to the overwhelm of the parents. Often enough, it seems like it is the days in the hospice the healthy children long for since here they are relieved of all burdens for a few hours.
The Drums Will Protect You
Jazz drummer Kassa Overall reflects on his time in the Covid-empty city while preparing to leave—perhaps forever.
Home in the Mine
A once-prosperous coal mining town is now in decline, as Chinese economic policy has pivoted away from coal. Through the director’s own family, the film depicts the source of life—mined from the darkness of 800 meters underground—that has given, as well as taken away from them.
Roses in Full Colour
"The Complete Book of Roses"—pages 1–114. A brief glimpse of the disconnect between digital devices and recording the "natural." Made during Video Pool’s Media Arts Residency (2019–2021) using the Apollo monitor and microscope camera.
In Flow of Words
A short experimental film about the piercing experiences of three interpreters of the Yugoslavia Tribunal in The Hague and their position as a channel between speakers and listeners, witnesses and defendants, judges and attendees.
Re-dit-en-un-in-learning
Kunsthal Charlottenborg and CPH:DOX present an exhibition with the French star artist Laure Prouvost, who will open the festival’s first day. Prouvost’s creative and unruly inner universe is expressed through art forms such as sculpture, installation and video - and always with characteristic roots in Prouvost’s own persona. Her brand-new video work ’Re-dit-en-un-in-learning’ is no exception. Here, she welcomes us to a learning centre that multiplies the absurdity of the education system with itself in a nonsensical New Public Management language, which the title also alludes to. With an iPhone video guide at hand and Prouvost as a teacher on the soundtrack, we are taught the relationship between objects and their meaning. A loaf of bread means work. ‘You know that,’ each new topic is authoritatively emphasised. But as soon as you think that it’s the Institution itself that is the object of Prouvost’s anarchist satire, her restless and unruly work changes direction.
Se il cielo è tradito - La storia di Claudio Galuzzi
Hammering Man
A rhythmic ballad highlighting the cycle of work tasks and also the curtsies of time passing in systems of time-proven gestures and procedures, with the compositional force being the desire to follow the decomposition by reassembling a new texture.
Slim Pickins
On the corner of Main Street in Stephenville, Texas, sits ‘Slim Pickins Outfitters', the first Black-owned outdoor outfitter shop in the Country. Owned by Jahmicah Dawes and his wife, Heather, the shop has become a staple in the community that represents fellowship, allyship, and outfitting friends for their next adventure. Like most small businesses, Covid-19 put more stress on their business and mental health than anticipated. But through it all, they continue to tell a story of hope and reconciliation, of community, and of friendship in an America that desperately needs to hear it.
Norwegian Headache
In the Norwegian Constitution, there is an article that speaks for future generations. Article 112 gives all unborn Norwegians the right to a clean environment, and now it has been challenged in the Norwegian Supreme Court for the first time in history as a group of lawyers, young activists and grandparents file a historic lawsuit against the Norwegian government for granting new oil licenses in the Arctic Barents Sea.
25 Weeks: A Wisconsin Pizza Harvest
"25 Weeks: A Wisconsin Harvest" is the story of the 2020 wheat harvest on Anarchy Acres, a tiny farm in Wisconsin. This unusual farm is working hard to re-create the wheat of 19th century Wisconsin by growing out rare wheat cultivars from samples held in seed banks. Anarchy Acres uses a team of miniature donkeys for some field work, and pays close attention to sustainable farming practices. Food, the environment, and mutual respect are lived out in a millennia-old cycle.
The Same Dream
Doru is a Romanian soldier on his first mission to Afghanistan. Laila is an Afghan girl. They've met for a brief second and from that moment their destinies became intertwined. This film, finding itself on the border between documentary and fiction, tells the stories of a soldier marked by the brutality of war and that of a young girl who had been in the wrong place, in the wrong time. The director combines archival footage from the war in Afghanistan with beautifully shot personal images, in a film about the cruelty of war, from the perspective of both the invaders and of the civilians trapped within.
Biskawbiyung: The Return
A broken history that has torn Anishinaabe families from their sacred objects is healed through the repatriation of sacred objects and the determination of the indigenous people to return to their traditional knowledge to carry it into the future.
The Gardener of Tension Fields
The mysterious writer Mehis Heinsaar is on a journey. In such days, where he walks alone for days in a wild thicket towards the vast meadows, he calls the poor man's pilgrimages. The writer is surrounded by unusual and meaningful nature, he can still speak the language of animals and birds and see what is invisible to the eye. There will be seven meetings along the way for the traveler, which will open the magical inner world of Mehis Heinsaar to the viewer.
Back to the Basics
I lost my passion for filmmaking after becoming a film major. However, I regain my passion by meeting my peers and a film director and listening to their stories.
Aftermath
Documentary about the aftermath of the earthquake that shook Juchitán, on the Mexican Pacific coast. It tells the story of Dxani -muxe seamstress- and Jacinto -mason- and how their lives were radically changed by the strongest earthquake that hit this community; and the poor response of the corrupt authorities.
Future From Inside
The third part of a trilogy regarding "feral domesticity," following "Strangely Ordinary This Devotion" (2017) and "Come Coyote" (2019). "Future from Inside" is a meditation on the environment, domestic space, queer desire, and magic.
Faces
A group of young people discuss the joys and challenges of being mixed race, and the unique anxiety that comes with belonging to two or more cultures.
Girl With Flair
After learning the news of his ex-fiancee’s unconventional marriage, an immigrant poet and a New York social worker questions whether it’s possible to be a true revolutionary and a nonconformist while living a comfortable life of a government employee.
Flamenco Queer
After three decades of hiding his feminine impulses, seasoned Spanish dancer Manuel Liñán comes out to challenge convention by pursuing his love of performing flamenco - dressed as a woman - in a conservative society with rigid cultural traditions.
Half a Light-Year
A young man sits on a busy street in Lisbon to draw the people passing by. Not too distant, a couple talks about the origin of a wallet found months earlier. The light of one moment is reflected on the other.
I Am Not to Be Feared
Dagnis suffered in a serious accident that took place almost 30 years ago. He's had to learn to live with his disability and also his insomnia and loneliness, as he feels people are afraid of him. Now Dagnis has other worries: he's got a video camera in his hands for the first time of his life, and he has to make a film. He walks around the village of Vaidava, films and comments on everything he sees and hears. We have the opportunity to look at the life of a small Latvian village through Dagnis’s eyes. What does Dagnis think about the environment around him, the society and its ability to accept others?
I Might Not Normally Share This
A genuine conversation with five Egyptian artists, who reveal their journeys of self-discovery, and how they stumble upon self-doubt along the road. They share snaps of their memories, personal insights, and doubts, diving layers beneath the surface, digging towards the core motives behind pursuing art, as well as their vulnerabilities and the ephemerality of the creative process.
Metal Andino: Guitarras, Bajo y Batería en los Andes
It offers in the subtitle this documentary that explores the sound and cultural intersections produced in the North of Chile between heavy-metal and Andean music. Bands from Chile, Peru and Bolivia exemplify this sound, as lively as it is little studied. It is music with a distinctive identity, both traditional and globalized.
Borderline
Elise Guillaume's "Borderline" parallels the complementary patterns of human and nonhuman forms, from tree limbs, spines and trunks, placing untamed nature adjacent to a clinical medical setting. The film reflects on these worlds as co-dependent, connected and combined – and how this relationship can enable rebirth and overcome pain.
Uma Gota de Esperança
A mother discovers that her son has a disability that causes her breast milk to intoxicate him. But the discovery comes too late to prevent the loss of neurons.
Blue Sky
On January 24th, 1954, Mamaddi, aged 22, took a boat from Le Havre to New York. But her journey began earlier in her hometown movie theater, with images coming off the screen and never disappearing: a beautiful Cadillac, a young woman, the blue sky.
Psychic Meat
"The film is a diary and act of bearing witness in which Wardell tells of his father's artificial heart valve, the industrial farming industry that both provided the tissue for it and arguably hastened its necessity, and their somewhat distant father-son relationship. Wardell hand-developed this film in salt which resulted in a shimmering pock-marked effect on the celluloid which emphasises the film's own materiality and physical precarity in line with the earthbound fleshiness of the maker's voiceover narrative. However, the salt’s implications as a curing agent for meat and the way its visual impact brings together threads of preservation – of his father's life, of their mutual love, of the detachment they have felt for years – and the latent imagery of these things hanging and curing over time, becomes quietly overwhelming." - Ben Nicholson, Alt/Kino
Murmur of Icebergs
A poetic murmur shortens the distance between eighty and twenty-two degrees latitude north, as well as the gap between the Arctic Ocean and the Pearl River Delta. Are the melting glaciers and a small Chinese southern city reclaimed from the sea existing on parallel universes, or is it simply karma? If we get a chance to stay awake, will catastrophe turn out to be nothing but a bad dream?
The Fugitives
Zoila and Marta have become friends in the residence where they live because they have the same goal, to escape quickly from the place. In their day to day life, they plan original escape strategies as they need to return home urgently, one to feed her husband and the other to take care of her mother.
Bancal
Perhaps the oldest method of building known to humankind is the simple stacking of stones. If you choose the right stones, and prepare and place them in exactly the right position, a wall built in this way will be at least as sturdy as one built using mortar. This craft seems to have been overtaken by time, made obsolete by modern techniques. But this is precisely the reason that it can now be elevated to a form of art.
Imperial
At dawn, a cannon shot shatters the plain. Horses gallop across the beaten earth. Eva, 21 years old, wants to join the hunters of the Imperial Guard, a Napoleonic regiment of historical re-enactment reserved for men. In her quest for romanticism, she hides her identity so that she can set foot in the stirrup, braving a 200-year-old ban. In this world of gunpowder and smoke, Eva discovers herself as she has always dreamed: a handsome soldier at the side of a beautiful princess.