Programme 7
Staying with the Trouble (2018)
Director: Alyona Larionov
United Kingdom
Experimental ǀ 14 min
English
The film builds on the unique bond between eagle hunter Kazakh Berkutchi and his eagle Sadak to observe power relations in a world dealing with security crises and hyperconnectivity. Oscillating between control and submission, Berkutchi, Sadak, a judoist and a border control officer offer viewers their own bodily interpretations of the constantly shifting scales of power.
Establishing Eden (2016)
Director: Broersen & Lukács
The Netherlands
Experimental | 10 min
No dialogue
Broersen & Lukács focus on the establishing shot: the moment a landscape is identified and becomes one of the main protagonists in a film. The filmmakers travelled to New Zealand, setting for the film series ‘The Lord of the Rings’, to capture many possible realities, an illusionary Eden that falls apart as easily as it comes together.
WHOLY (2018)
Director: Andrea Dojmi
United Kingdom
Experimental | 12 min
English
WHOLY is a womb, a film made in a state of awakening that follows the synchronicity of life with footage made over the course of five years. Characters and landscapes intertwine in a complex labyrinth to shape a portrait of humanity and the inner dimension between the physical and the spiritual.
Nowhere (2018)
Director: Neli Ružić
Croatia
Experimental | 18 min
Serbo-Croatian with English subtitles
Nowhere explores the personal experience of departing, returning and rebuilding identity. Neli Ružić’s sculpture Before the Dawn and Bogdan Bogdanović’s monument The Guardian of Freedom, installed at the Klis Fortress at different times, are the backbones of this film, triggering a kind of time archaeology and reactivating an invisible and possibly erased history.
Sisyphus (2017)
Director: Driss Aroussi
France
Experimental | 12 min
Arabic with English subtitles
In the desert, a man extracts stones from a mountain and breaks them. In his perpetual labour, he meditates upon life and death.
As Sovereign as Love (2017)
Director: David K Ross
Canada
Experimental | 13 min
English with Arabic subtitles
As Sovereign as Love is a guided cinematic tour of Montreal’s Parc Jean Drapeau, the former site of the Expo 67 world's fair. The screenplay was drawn from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s 1939 memoir, Terre des hommes, which provides uncanny descriptions of the park as it exists today.
KILAUEA: Pele's Domain (2018)
Director: JoAnn Gillerman
United States of America
Experimental | 29 min
English
Shot over three decades on location at Kilauea, one of the world’s most active volcanoes and Pele’s home, this film interweaves Hawaiian culture, science and images of Kilauea from the ground, air and sea. This is the story of Pele reclaiming her land, told from the perspective of an indigenous Hawaiian woman at an evacuation centre.
Tropical Malaise: Prologue (2017)
Director: Domingo Castillo
United States of America
Experimental | 19 min
English with Arabic subtitles
This site-specific film examines life on earth 500 million years in the future, after the end of human existence. Utilising the material logic of architectural rendering as it pertains to the current development of Miami, the film invites a sense of reified reality, where renderings, through the event of their creation, become concrete reality.
On Familiar Waters (2018)
Director: Rita Mahfouz
Lebanon
Experimental | 8 min
English with Arabic subtitles
An assembled voice-over, originally extracted from film scenes revolving around a ship or the sea, portrays a drowned city, while images of buildings, cars, motorcycles, people, dirt, cigarette butts and concrete overlap on a surface of water. The video explores an intermediate dimension where the distinction between background and foreground disappears.
The Colour of the Current (2017)
Directors: Rodrigo Luque and Marcelo Sandoval
Peru
Documentary ǀ 10 min
Spanish with English subtitles
In March 2017, the weather phenomenon El Niño Costero devastated many cities and villages in Peru. This film tells the story of Erick Valencia, an artist from one of the most affected rural villages in the country, focusing on his efforts to overcome his plight and his relationship to art.
Neromanna (2017)
Directors: Sotiris Tsiganos and Ionian Bisai
Greece
Experimental | 9 min
Greek with English subtitles
The village Kallio was expropriated by the government in 1969 and covered in 1981 by the water of an artificial lake created by the Mornos Dam for use as a reservoir for the city of Athens. These actions resulted in the village community being dissolved and relocated elsewhere.