Season III

ADAM CENTKO - SILICON SIGHTS

[SLOVAKIA 2020]

Silicon Sights is a fictional exploration of a hypothetical border, between the physical land- scapes and their digital replicas, questioning the bridge between the two worlds, and fol- lowing the existence of meta-human entities and alter-egos on both sides. What do these entities have in common, and what is the relationship between them? The hero of the film is one of such, and they are provided with a camera, a device that can exist on either side of the border and can, therefore, cross and blend the documentations into one research narrative. There is no image without a camera, the source of external perspectives, it becomes an active actor in our digital lives: framing, juxtaposing, and editing. A fragile inter-dependency is revealed, where the digital world thrives on the resources of the physical, consuming electricity and polluting. The meta-human entities of the digital world dream ambitiously of the better future; a post-representational paradise.


adamcentko.com/


[08:22]

SJOERD MARTENS - INVITATION

[NETHERLANDS 2018]

The video Invitation (2018) is a photographic registration, a still digital image brought to life, by printing it on canvas material, painting it with oil paint and then scanning it and animating it with 3d and video material. The video is subtitled with poetry, the sound is a minimalist digitally composed piece of music. The film Invitation can be seen as a sculpture of our legacy. The areas I create are characterized by past human presence, current abandonedness and future uncertainty. The human traces as still life are brought to a new breathing environment through multidisciplinarity and atypical narrative techniques. The manipulated mise-en-scène forms a post-apocalyptic, semi-surreal microcosm that includes physical and non-physical signs of our mortality. This haven is solely palpable and is comparable to past childhood dreams, or dissociation from one’s environment or self.

sjoerdmartens.nl

[05:08]
CHARLOTTE CLERMONT - WHERE I DON’T MEET YOU

[CANADA 2019]

Shot on Super 8, "where i don't meet you" is based on its own physicality by the means of a DIY hand processing technique, where the film's materiality is treated not only as a medium but also as a subject. Its narrative structure reflects a work on film deconstruction, which joins an unpredictable and experimental universe. Showing a series of figurative shots accompanied by a textual sequence, formal and psychological associations are developped between each of the images. Through a confusing poetry, a filmic atmosphere unfolds in a "non-place", which recalls a moment lost between two time-spaces.

charlotteclermont.com/

[04:16]
KLOE NGUYEN - ABOUT TIME

[VIETNAM 2020]

I find my inner voice when being invisible in an immense and busy world. I think I'm obsessed with big cities.


[2:00]
JUYI MAO - WAYS OF EATING LUOSIFEN

[UNITED STATES 2017]

This work draws inspiration from Kenneth Anger’s (1927- ) experimental film Kustom Kar Kommandos (1973). In the constant laying and interlacing film structure, the body (hands) have a relationship with various parts of the object. Through the camera movements, editing and soundtrack, an erotic narrative arc is produced, and finally, the climax—made Luosifen and eat it.

maojuyi.com

[02:54]

BRIAN DINKLE - DISAVOW

[UNITED STATES 2020]

Director Brian Dinkel, vocalist SIR E.U, and audio polymath Tooth Choir present a glitch art dream (or nightmare) laden with inflammatory social narratives via adept rhyming and jarring and disruptive percussive production. The audiovisual filibuster is an excerpt from a large vault of Audio/Visual experiences created by the triad fittingly formed during the 2020 pandemic.

dinkie.biz/
@dinklepie_
[04:05]

AUGUSTINA COMEDI - PLAYBACK

[ARGENTINA 2019]

In Córdoba, far from the Argentinian capital, the end of a military regime promises a spring that lasts very little. “La Delpi” is the only survivor of a group of transgender women and drag queen friends, who began to die of AIDS in the late 80s. In a Catholic and conservative city, the Kalas Group made their weapons and trenches out of improvised dresses and playbacks.
Today the images of a unique and unknown footage are not only a farewell letter, but also a friendship manifesto.

@playback_shortfilm
[14:27]

CHARLOTTE VAN WINDEN - DOCTOR HOLIDAY

[NETHERLANDS 2020]

The neurosurgeon Achille Ladrac has been sentenced to 7 years' imprisonment after discovering he made clones in an unethical manner. After the prison sentence, he retrains as a plastic surgeon and quickly gets bored.

charlottevanwinden.com/
@charlottevanwinden
[08:25]

ELUNED ZOË AIANO, ALESANDRA TATIĆ - I HAVE A SONG TO SING YOU

[SERBIA 2020]

As a child, Ivanka was chosen by fairy women for the special task of entering the realm of the dead to discover the future. As an old lady, the spirits have left her, so how does she navigate between the two worlds now?

[5:40]
STAN ADARD - TIME(S) TO BREATHE

[SWITZERLAND 2020]

It is about the breath. And about thoughts. It is not about how to control your thoughts, but all about to stop your thoughts controlling you.
We walk through our life, childhood, teenage years, years in which we earn money and raise our children and eventually we enter the serenity of age. That said, it is about birth and death as well.

Time(s) To Breathe takes the attentive viewer/listener on a journey, at the end of which his condition should have changed: he breathes calmer and more consciously. An exciting animated film that directly involves the viewer/listener.

[03:09]

MARK CHEE - GUNKWORLD

[SINGAPORE 2020]

Using a unique format of episodes and advertisements:

GUNKWORLD is a short film about a horror cult cartoon series on TV where the main characters: Gunkman, Sallysweets and Roboji, are cute monster schoolchildren who terrorize human characters. Outside of the TV show, GUNKWORLD begins to advertise its brand through commercials and merchandise, which quickly gains popularity at an unholy rate. The entire planet eventually becomes crazed, all their thoughts replaced with messages from GUNKWORLD.

[10:26]

ELI GOLDSTONE - UNTITLED (DWAYNE) 


[UNITED STATES 2020]

Through a peephole embedded into the face of an artificial, plastic rock, the viewer becomes implicated as they peer into painful object dreams. The piece engages the physical and emotional aspects of the viewer, carrying the artist's curiosity for what differentiates humans from tools. The work investigates the use of surveillance and voyeurism as a means of instilling a state of being onto an object.

eligoldstoneart.com/
@enotsblog
[03:00]

JONATHAN ONSUWAN JOHNSO - A STORY FROM SHABA’S FAMILY HAIRSTYLING

[UNITED STATES 2020]

Shaba Johnson started the first Asian-owned beauty salon in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA during a period of refugee influx in the early 1980s. Her shop became an informal social gathering place for recent immigrants from Asia and Eastern Europe. This is one in a series of experimental documentary recollections of these stories.


[02:00]
SARAH THỦY TIÊN

[SCOTLAND 2020]

even the fishes
have personal stories
they haven't yet told

[10:24]

IAN HAIG - ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOREVER

[AUSTRALIA 2019]

24 hr fake news coverage, no news presenters, no breaking news stories, no information, no in-studio interviews, all content is reduced to meat, and the visceral human body. There remains an implicit link between the media landscape and our bodies, as we merge more and more with the electronic world...

ianhaig.net/

[02:40]

BRITANY GUNDERSON - BACKGROUND MATERIAL

[UNITED STATES 2020] 

A mother/daughter relationship is analyzed through textile materials.

[08:57]
MATTHEW WILLIAMSON - TRAITOR

[CANADA 2020]

Inspired by the "Bloody Assize of 1814", this video examines the internal turmoil of a lost 19th century defector locked in a stasis of 90's video games.

[04:00]

HIDENOBU OISHI - FAIRY TALE

[JAPAN 2020]

Denying the reality in front of him is a way of protecting himself. He has never accepted himself without putting so much makeup on himself. He becomes completely unrecognizable. At night when his morals are shed and shame and pleasure are exposed, a wild beast is killed.

fairyflm.tumblr.com/


[13:46]


TRAN UY DUC - NOT A FACE

[VIETNAM 2020]

"the circle protects the circle deforms
the face's a face the face's none"

behance.net/tranuyduc

[03:23]

YUKA SATO - CAMOUFLAGE

[JAPAN 2017]

Upon enlarging the picture, a large amount of grain can be discerned. It's like another world or dimension, as if numerous people moving in a crowd.




[07:00]




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