FRANCES KROON

AFRIKA IS A COUNTRY

South Africa | 2018 | 3’

An allegorical piece that uses symbolism to tell a narrative about the willful blindness of the “first world” and how inadvertently we feed off the riches of developing countries to maintain the lifestyle we take for granted. The title Afrika is a Country is a tongue-and-cheek phrase that has becomes a playful hashtag in South Africa after George Bush mistakingly referred to the “country of Africa” in a public speech.

HENNING
HIMMELREICH

AFTER SILENCE

Germany | 2018 | 4’

After Silence addresses the inner process of mental and emotional regeneration of human psyche. To visually represent this process the film uses the imaginary from Egyptian mythology and its concept of the journey into the afterlife in an abstract manner.

AVNER
PINCHOVER

CHAIRS

Israel | 2018 | 12’

A man hurls chairs at a wall for 12 minutes in what seems to be a holy-rage attack. This expressive performance-for-camera fluctuates between satisfaction and futility while simultaneously creating compositions of destructive beauty.

KEVIN
MCGLOUGHLIN

EPOCH

Ireland | 2019 | 2’

EPOCH Film and Sound design by Kevin McGloughlin Selected images : Google Earth Audio Samples : Nasa Director Statement. Epoch is a visual representation of our connection to earth and it’s vulnerable glory. Our time here is esoteric, limited and intangible. The fragility which exists in all aspects of life is one thing that is certain. We are brittle, and so is Mother Earth.

ACCI
BABA

EXODUS

Germany | 2017 | 3’

An experimental film to explore behaviors of an artificial system reaching the point of saturation. Central to the work is the aesthetic combination of geometry and life, expressed by collinear structure and living ants. The sugar water falls from the sky, artificially creating ecosystem for ants to survive. Ants walk along the infinite path, leaving pheromones for the others to follow. Soon one of the ant chose to escape from the saturated system, realizing they have been walking on a infinite path. The others followed and continued walking in to the void as they form an another circular loop. Through the perspective of micro organism, the artwork finds the relation between the viewers to reflect the formula emerging from the hyper reality.

THOMAS
RENOLDNER

DON’T KNOW WHAT

Austria | 2019 | 8’

In DONT KNOW WHAT, entertainment cinema and avant-garde film merge into a new kind of film genre. The film shifts between live action and animation, becomes a musical composition by transforming language into music, and explores new visual possibilities of digital video in a playful manner

ISABELLE
NOUZHA

DYSTOPIAN PATTERNS

Belgium | 2019 | 7’

Something happened to that city. Could be Beirut.

JAN RIESENBECK
DENNIS STEIN-
SCHOMBURG

FACELIFT

Germany | 2019 | 7’

A man talks about his everyday life while his head is developing a life of it’s own.

GULI
SILBERSTEIN

FIELD OF INFINITY

United Kingdom | 2018 | 6’

Inspired by both Italian Renaissance paintings and contemporary news broadcasts from Gaza protests at the border with Israel - the work processes human gestures and figures in landscape into a dark and colourful scramble. Following Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of ‘Plane of immanence’, the work aims to open up an array of reflections, including concerns about the political image, image of the political, the politics of the image, and the image of image.

JESSICA
BATSON

MELLOW YELLOW

United States | 2019 | 4’

A mad hatter tea party between two eccentric siblings. Filmed in Chicago, the project features Polish talent and wardrobe. The producer currently lives in Denver, where the Director is from.

TAET
VREMYA

PEOPLE DOING MOVES

Germany | 2019 | 9’

In the video “people doing moves,” created by the collectives and Taet Vremya, a group of young men perform short movements. They use their bodies in unusual and witty ways, forming individual and social sculptures in space. The video is, in a way, an archive and accumulation of movement possibilities. With the intention to recognize movements that have relevance to an individual, ...

CEM
GÖKSOY

QUINTESSENCE

Turkey | 2018 | 6’

“Quintessence” is a short film about the correlation between human and the law of energy.

VINÍCIUS
CARDOSO

VANITAS

Brazil | 2017 | 6’

We do not share pains and failures. So vanity is the price to be paid. Such a move made vanity a virtue, no longer the capital sin of pride. Bringing among its characteristics immortality. We are the civilization that put death aside. Therefore, the idea of VANITAS is to exhort the viewer to consider mortality. Pondering about death is, paradoxically, pondering about life and the “temptations.” There is no end. This is the drama. In Bosch’s hell, she was condemned to look at her own reflection. Forever. Condemned by her vanity, she is vanity. She wanders through the darkness of the Garden of Earthly Delight. She is empty. She is Vanitas. A latin noun that means “emptiness” and “vanity. And thus travel to a view of earthly life and the worthless nature of all earthly goods and pursuits. Paying for the sin of vanity.