Films

• (Rêve) d'un pays éloigné, 10'
  (Rêve) d'un pays éloigné / (Dream) of a distant land

  Production: Francce 2014

  Summer in retrospect, flashes, and illuminations, but also in complete darkness. A mother and a daughter, not always in harmony. It is a poetic, intense film about their relation, analysed through the fragments of summer moments they have spent together. A relation as ambiguous as can be between two people so close to each other.

  

   

  

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  Authors:

  • Muriel Montini
• I'll call you when I get there, 20'

  I'll call you when I get there
  Production: Poland / Netherlands 2013 / 2014

  A young artist receives an invitation from a small Dutch gallery called Upominki. She travels to Rotterdam by train. She gets calls constantly: from her worried (soon to be terrified) mother, from her calm grandma, and from a professionally untrusting but cool-headed policeman. What can/could happen before the destination is reached, and beyond? A thorough analysis of the media's influence on our lives, produced with the help of some of these media.

  

   

  

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  Authors:

  • Małgorzata Goliszewska
• Matter of State, 3'

  Matter of State
  Production: Poland / Germany 2014

  An experimental short focusing on the changing environment that we inhabit: from nature's bosom to a world of technology. A split screen, replicating the portrayal of the same person in a woodland and an urban environment; it tests our perception by showing what became paradoxically natural for the Western man: the rejection of Nature, and unrestrained faith in technology. This rejection is probably irreversible.

  

   

  

   

  

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  Authors:

  • Teresa Otulak
• Stay the Same, 14'

  Stay the Same
  Production: UK 2013

  Recording footage for this experimental documentary took place over the course of a year: every day at the same time in the same place. Stay the Same talks about our relation to time and the need to capture the feeling, the experience, the emotion. Without any words or changing the camera angle, the film goes from darkness to light, shows seasons and emotions. Never-ending change is the only thing that is constant. It broadens the boundaries of the form, creating a part of film poetry, showing beauty and pain present in every day. Director Sam Firth came to one and the same place at the Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland every day at the same hour, and for ten minutes filmed her self-portrait. The film is an accumulation of these moments, accompanied by Fraya Thomse's score made especially for the film.

  
   

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  Authors:

  • Sam Firth
• Velsignet vaere dette sted, 29'

  Velsignet vaere dette sted / Blessed by this place
  Production: Denmark 2013

  A multilayered film about seeking identity, and belonging to a place. At the same time it is a portrait of mankind, metaphysical and full of humour, focusing on the areas where we find the meaning of life, areas that make life understandable and meaningful. Weightlifting, work (even in a hilarious costume), a place to put flowers, space to smoke a cigarette and to gossip, a heavenly choir in the funeral chapel. Each of those actions and each of these places can be what they should be under the consistently changing sky.

  

   

  

   

  

   

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  Authors:

  • Carl Olsson