LA SAISON DES FUNÉRAILLES
Matthew LancitSurrounded by villages deeply rooted in ancestral traditions, Dschang is an expanding university town in the heart of Cameroon. Its inhabitants define themselves between the clash of old-world mysticism and modern development...
ANINA
Alkaios SpyrouANINA documents a voyage onboard a container ship, crossing into Baltic. In the form of a film-essay without a narrator, the film assumes the point of view of these iron cathedrals, the industrial maritime landscape they exist in, and the aesthetic spectacles they produce midst the logistical cacophony of capitalism and territory....
GEOGRAPHIES OF FREEDOM
Miguel Peres dos SantosThere’s an uncanny kind of shock value to hearing a friendly, old-timey television announcer speak of how the “simple people” of the Netherlands Antilles were rescued from “primitive living conditions” when large oil refineries appeared on the islands, ending their “deficient medical care and lack of hygiene...
BIRD IN ITALIAN IS UCCELLO
Gernot WielandGernot Wieland's new film, Bird in Italian is Uccello (2021), furthers his interest in psychological states and the constitution of belonging in different social contexts. Drawing upon Daphne du Maurier’s short story The Birds, and its subsequent cinematic adaptation, Bird in Italian is Uccello (re)enacts a theatrical production of the horror-thriller...
CONTAMINATE ME
Steve Reinke - Jessie MottThe small cruelties of a subliminal fog roll in. A pandemic thwarts intimacy. Perched from their little planets, this cast of wildly colorful creatures question their futures and navigate the longing for connection. This is the fifth collaboration between Jessie Mott and Steve Reinke....
LIBERATION RADIO
Esther JohnsonThis is Liberation Radio. In 1968, a group of American military deserters went to the North Vietnamese mission in Stockholm with one object in mind – to join the army they had been drafted to fight. Instead, they were recruited for the propaganda war – and use magnetic tape, pop music and political rhetoric to persuade other American servicemen to desert...
MOUNE Ô
Maxime Jean-Baptiste"I close my eyes. The crowd makes me smile, breaks my body, and that's the end". By presenting the festive events which escorted the projection of the film Jean Galmot aventurier by Alain Maline, where the father's filmmaker played a role, the images of Moune Ô reveal the survival of the colonial inheritance within a Western collective unconscious always marked of stereotypes...
THE MONK
Paulius SliaupaThe monk, evokes, in a poetic way, man's changing relationship with nature, the consequences this has on people's daily life and the feeling of loss and alienation this causes on a personal level....
ALS REUZEN STERVEN
Jan VrommanWhen giants die let three generations look back on the street happenings around parties and manifestations. The grandfather appears as a ghost and represents processions organized by order of cities and municipalities. It is his son who places the parades in a series of processions, historical processions, parades, traditional parties and carnival parties. Criticism and attraction play their game...
BUCHAREST 8 MARCH 2022
Mira SandersIn the video ‘Bucharest 8 March 2022’ we listen to a voice message that shares city experiences and impressions from a walk in Bucharest city centre. Throughout the message, we understand that it is the first time that the narrator has been there...
