Programme 17
Unfinished Business (2017)
Director: Bojan Fajfric
The Netherlands
Experimental ǀ 18 min
English
In an old Kunstzaal, the distinction between past, present and future is unclear--time has broken down. An artist intensely resists his last days by remaking fragments of his life. Fiction intertwines with reconstructed personal history as the film attempts to make sense of his desires and traumas.
Pangaea (2015)
Director: Emma Rozanski
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Experimental | 9 min
Serbo-Croatian with English subtitles
Dementia draws a woman into a world of memory loops, where she loses her love, her spirit, her present and her past.
Encounters with Silence (2016)
Director: Janus Victoria
Japan
Documentary | 30 min
Japanese with English subtitles
The lonely death, or kodokushi, has become hauntingly common in Japan. The filmmaker tackles this sensitive subject through encounters with a man who cleans the apartments of those who die alone, a photographer who documents the aftermath of the deaths, an elderly woman fiercely protective of her independence, and an artist who sings to pierce the stillness.
The Lost Object (2016)
Director: Sebastián Díaz Morales
The Netherlands
Experimental | 15 min
No dialogue
The Lost Object is the final video in a trilogy that examines the complex mechanisms involved in how the constructed nature of reality is perceived and how this construction is performed, both in the realm of our imagination and in film. The director approaches film as a ‘factory of simulacra’.
No, I Was Thinking of Life (CC) (2018)
Director: Mona Varichon
United States of America
Experimental | 12 min
English
The director and her mother engage in a dialogue about filmmaker Jonas Mekas, who is invoked by both parties to express their own ideas. The closed captioned format reflects the internal translation that takes place when a speaker and receiver exist in distinct contexts, an embodied translation rather than a merely functional one.
Madame Cléante will not go to the graveyard (2016)
Director: Pamela Varela
French Guiana
Narrative | 39 min
Haitian Creole with English subtitles
Amidst a carnival in French Guiana, two young métis [mixed race] brothers, Emmanuel and Léon, attend the funeral of their grandmother, Cléante. As they reminisce about the past, the brothers’ childhood memories resurface and with them some well-hidden secrets.
Home Exercises (2017)
Director: Sarah Friedland
United States of America
Experimental | 22 min
English
Using the formal structure of a home workout video, this hybrid documentary and dance film investigates the gestural habits of aging individuals and looks at the physicality of aging as choreography. In its invitation to viewers to move, the film stages choreographies between the mise-en-scène and the home dweller.