Programme 12

Driving Dinosaurs (2019)
Director: Emma Piper-Burket
United States of America
Experimental | 10 min
English with English subtitles

An 89-year-old marketing gimmick subliminally resurfaces on a lonely road in the American West.

Weak Enough to Hear (2019)
Director: Rouzbeh Akhbari and Felix Kalmenson
Turkey
Experimental | 39 min
Turkish with English subtitles

Giving water and land a voice, Weak Enough to Hear imagines a day spent along the Euphrates River. The storyline subtly references the murder of Ahmed Jabbar Kareem Ali, a 15-year-old boy drowned by British troops in 2003 after being accused of looting. His fictional ghost anchors the narrative by raising questions about the power of those who control access to the resources and history of the river and surrounding land.

Osoresan (Mount of Fear) (2018)
Directors: Ken Daimaru and Natacha Nisic
France
Experimental | 17 min
Japanese with English subtitles

Historian Ken Daimaru and artist Natacha Nisic paint a dreamlike fresco of cultural heritage and its function in places affected by disaster. Take Nakamaura is the last Itako in Japan, a blind shaman who dwells on Mount Osoresan (Mount of Fear) close to the Rokkasho nuclear processing plant. Everyone who visits an Itako seeks to make peace with the dead. Can we make peace with the legacy of nuclear disaster?

China not China (2018)
Director: Richard Tuohy
Australia
Experimental | 14 min
No dialogue

In 2017, Hong Kong marked 20 years since its handover to China, halfway through the planned 40-year ‘one country, two systems’ transition. Taiwan was once Imperial China, then Formosa; now it is the Republic of China (ROC), located just off the coast of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Multiple exposures of street scenes distort space and place, creating a fluid sense of the impermanence and transition of two states somewhere between China and not China.

32-Rbit (2018)
Director: Victor Orozco
Germany/Mexico
Experimental | 8 min
Spanish with English subtitles

Victor Orozco’s grandmother was convinced that the only animal that made the same mistake twice was the human being, while he was certain that everything could be fixed with CTRL+Z. In this short experimental film, Orozco creates his very own Internet, a parallel world where memory loss, errors, surveillance and addiction corrupt everything and everyone.