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Adversarial Infrastructure
Adversarial Infrastructure is an investigation into the volumetric history of the Crimean annexation that employs deepfake technology as a research method. Dissecting the Crimean Bridge, the crystallised artefact of Russian colonial violence that spans through cyberspace no less than an offline landscape, this film aims to assemble the new image of logistical infrastructures as a type of hybrid warfare.
After We Met Again
After 500 days of separation due to the pandemic, a newly engaged couple reunites and spends 24 hours in Vienna.
Ocean of Interiors
Sheltered domesticities and a desire to escape them are laced through Alexis McCrimmon's "Ocean of Interiors". In this film-poem, oceanic space is mapped against an inner self. Slow-motion shots of concrete floors, urban environments, and everyday objects of the home are juxtaposed with the dreams of a young woman seeking to break out from her landlocked environment.
Against all the evils of the world
Everything resides in the mind of Lois, schizophrenic artist and a strong follower of Virginia Woolf, who says, "There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can impose on the freedom of my mind." The protagonist gives life to the story, confronting his lucidity to the difficulties that torment him: contradictions, achievements, joys and pains, which build a reflective and emotional language that accounts for the mysterious mechanism of the human mind.
Oglago
Oğlago tells the story of a cross-country skiing athlete competing for the Turkish National Team. Despite being one of the most popular sports in Winter Olympics, cross-country skiing is almost unknown in Turkey. Although having participated four consecutive times to the Olympic Games, he never had a sponsor, or was interviewed by the press. As a four-time Olympian, Sabahattin Oğlago trains all by himself at the mountains of Eastern Anatolia for more than twenty years…
Beautiful Solution
The film poem about pesticides reflects on the return to the natural food chain, in which insect pest serve as food for the higher order. The harmonic cycle of life and death, the temple that is the wildflower field resounding with the inebriating sound of crickets chirping and wheat spikes rustling in the wind, is invaded by the human, the ultimate consumer with no natural predator.
i am doll parts
100% comprised of found footage, this is a meditation on the filmmaker's relationship with herself, others, and how she is perceived by both parties. Showing the filmmaker at various stages of her life, this short seeks to visualize the embarrassing ordeal of being known when you're at your most vulnerable.
Ellipsis
The narrator collides with animal-shaped shooting targets in the woods. She sets out to unravel a breathtaking and fascinating cultural-historical tangle of animal and human rights: the power of a gaze, the objects of exhibition, and the secondary power of being under scrutiny.
A Lockdown Christmas
This non-narrative film consists of 12 static shots, each 5 minutes, depicting Christmas time during lock down.
Incredible life
The heroes of the film are children born in Kosovo. The washing machine in their home was once comparable to a Rolls-Royce. Now they live in Germany: they study in local schools, speak German well and have plans to become German football stars.
War of Perception
"War of Perception" by Bo Choy meditates on Hong Kong life encompassing belief, family heritage and Western influence. A costumed spirit performs with mirrors, in addition to street musicians and dancing protestors. A sad, sombre tinge pervades their making of spectacle.
Lepota
A film almanac, in which modern Russian designers and design studios reflect on what we can show the world in addition to Balalaika and Khokhloma. Let's trace the history of Russian visual culture — from the appearance of the Cyrillic alphabet and folk crafts to constructivism, Soviet DIY and metamodern. Let's analyze the visual language of Russian icons, find the motifs of folk costume in modern fashion, look at the Baroque, classicism, Art Nouveau and other styles from the perspective of modern design. We will try to decode our culture and find something valuable in the forgotten together with well-known designers Anton Schneider, Regina Turbina, Alexey Ivanovsky, Tatiana Egoshina, design studios FYD, CLAN, ONY,Just Be Nice, White Russian Studio and more.
O Lasanha
Lasagna is a short film about one of the thousands of quirks that cats have that sometimes scare us. Saci, the owner, is watching TV in her room when Lasagna starts to stare at the door. Is there something behind her?
Recordaremos el viento cuando sople
A group of teenagers looking for meaning and feeling a lot during a few beautiful days in March away from the real world.
Godide
Through Godide, Phumulani Ntuli invites the viewer to a visual exploration where animation and collages collide, while skilfully navigating the convergence of documentary and fiction.
The Roman Light Filmed by Ferraniacolor
The return of juvenilia! Shots of Rome circa 1973 on splendid Ferraniacolor reversal stock, developed years later and then lost, that somehow survived the decades. Half a century and some digital editing later, this footage is a piece of cinehypnotica that is at once visionary and soothing.
Imploder
In the parallel process, space and time are defined through the movement of the body and the body is inevitably transformed by the movement in time and space. Accelerated through iterative procedure, dimensions start to merge and the body falls to its astronomical existence. Zero is where time, space and body become one. (Ivor Glavaš)
The Theory of New Genius
The Atomic Bomb Reflector is a fantastic invention developed by Sergei Kalmykov to convert destructive force into creative energy. The theatre director Rustem Begenov will ask the audience to fall asleep, sing a song of praise to themselves and switch on a Soviet-era light bulb – anything to make Kalmykov’s invention work. What is Rustem preaching, and to what extent is it comprehensible and necessary for mankind today?
Breathe
Kobi, a black sweet, shy seventeen year old skips school to meet his friends for a George Floyd vigil. On his adventure; love, loss, fear and friendship become his greatest allies, or his worst nightmare.
Malcata: Tale of a Lonely Hill
A journey that seeks to unravel the history of the region for 600 million years. Included in this report are the evidence of prehistoric animals, the daily struggle against the lack of resources, and the past of the Iberian lynx - the most threatened feline in the world, which still lives in the memory of the inhabitants.
Pelebon Ring Pandemi
This documentary tells/explains the pelebon of a pair of sulinggih in this Corona pandemic situation, the difference between pelebon/cremation as usual in Bali, with pelebon/cremation during the pandemic, especially corpses that have been exposed to covid. Then they found and used a very unique, simple method, a method very rarely used by Balinese people to carry out pelebon, namely using Tirta Prenawa Pengawak Solas. This film also inserts a "little" love story of a husband and wife until death picks them up. The couple had made a promise that the husband would die first. However, the wife did not keep her promise and died first. The husband felt disappointed, devastated, and sad because the wife did not keep her promise. Because their love is so strong that they are not separated from each other, the husband is "trusted" to "let go" of himself and then follow his wife.
Meltdown in Dixie
Owners of an ice cream shop in South Carolina soon learn that getting a Confederate flag removed, even in the wake of the Charleston Massacre, is not an easy task when the Sons of the Confederacy are involved.
Règlements de comptes à l'institut : Paris, août-septembre 1944
Brigada Nueve
Brigada Nueve (Cell No. 9) is a film about the collective experiences of former female political prisoners in the Philippines, who share their struggles, the truth of living inside the prison walls, and how they fought for their freedom.
A Diferença Entre Mongóis e Mongoloides
Some humans are born with a set of variable characteristics, which they call Down syndrome. A flying saucer, dinosaurs and storks help us to try to understand what it is and what is the difference between having it or not.
The Critical Witness
The disappearance of nursing student Holly Bobo remains a mystery for years. Even after a tight-knit group of four men are charged in her abduction and murder, no one knows for sure who killed her and why. Everything changes when one defendant turns a state’s witness. What he reveals on the stand is utterly shocking.
The Lost Calls of 9/11
Revealing never-heard-before calls from a trading room floor across the street from the World Trade Center on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001.
Monster Constrictors
Exploring the natural history of the constrictors, the big, the bold and arguably the most majestic of the snake world: super sleuths, silent yet deadly predators, that squeeze the life out of their victims.
Gestapo La police de la terreur
Hermann Göring's creation of 1933, the Gestapo, Geheime Staatspolizei, the secret state police charged with identifying individuals considered undesirable, was a redoubtable weapon in the hands of the Nazi power: a veritable device for terror. On 20 April 1934, oversight of the Gestapo passed to the head of the Schutzstaffel (SS), Heinrich Himmler, who was also appointed Chief of German Police by Hitler in 1936.
4'33"
Tthis collaborative, crowdsourced performance of John Cage's 4’33” features professionals, amateurs and even digital avatars from around the world putting their own spin on Cage’s infamous composition.
Gaming and Me: Connections, Identity and Support
As debate continues as to the effect of gaming on our mental health & wellbeing, we speak to gamers from the UK who tell us how, for them, the positives outweigh the negatives.
The Mauthausen Resistance
During World War II, the photographer Francisco Boix and other Spanish Republican prisoners of the Mauthausen concentration camp, where 120,000 people died, managed not only to survive their indescribable experience, but also, after the war, to reveal to the world what really happened in that hell, saving from destruction thousands of official photographs taken by the SS.
Fremmed blod
Documentarian Marte Hallem and her daughter uncover their foremothers' struggle for existence on their own rich journey through the Nordic region. Magic, natural rituals and forest Finnish shamanism - this is also Norway.