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Black Damp
/ Black Damp
BLACK DAMP draws on the story of the American town of Centralia, once a community of about 1600 people in Pennsylvania's anthracite coal region. A fire has been burning underneath the erstwhile town for forty years and there is enough coal underneath it to fuel the fire for two hundred more. Using archival photos and footage of the site as it appears today, BLACK DAMP explores the strange story of the town, the culpability of government in the face of disaster, and the experience of ownership.
Director/author: Lydia Moyer
USA 2010
Film & Video Video 10 min.
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Comca'ac
/ Comca'ac
The Comca'ac (the people who speak) are a small native community from the state of Sonora, Mexico. With a great cosmogony based on the stars and the songs, the Comca'ac live and sing their way through their poor reality. This is a small portrait of how these people talk and sing to prevail in this earth.
Director/author: Pedro Jimenez
Mexico 2010
Film & Video Video 7 min.
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Desert 79°: Three Journeys Beyond the Known World
/ Desert 79°: Three Journeys Beyond the Known World
Desert 79° looks over the edge of the known world. Three historical accounts of Arctic travellers in search of the unknown filmed in different tints of white. (1) The Greek Pytheas was the first to describe the Arctic Ocean (330 BC). (2) Admiral John Ross met the only inhabitants of the universe on an unknown Arctic coast (1819). (3) After his hot air balloon crashed on its way to the North Pole, the Swedish inventor Andree embarked on a long journey by foot over the ice cap (1897).
Director/author: Anna Abrahams
Netherlands 2010
Film & Video 35 mm 19 min.
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End Transmission
/ End Transmission
A decoded, alien environmental message, structured as a hypnotic experimental film, forcefully and poetically warns us of their return and the planet's re-colonization.
Director/author: Yin-Ju Chen & James T. Hong
Netherlands 2010
Film & Video Video 15 min.
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Fifteen An Hour
/ Fifteen An Hour
Fifteen An Hour is the amount of pay the nighttime workers received for cleaning the beaches of Pensacola, Florida.
Director/author: Kevin Jerome Everson
USA 2010
Film & Video Video 6 min.
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La fosse aux lions
/ La fosse aux lions
Home movies never depict catastrophes, and that although most families' narrations consist of nothing but catastrophes. The camera is turned off when the arguments begin. Only children seem to have the privilege of crying on camera, but in most cases surrounded by adults smiling soothingly. The non-depiction of the catastrophe is also the significant characteristic of Werner Herzog's film ›La soufrière‹, a report on a volcanic eruption that does not take place.
Director/author: Philipp Hauss
Austria 2010
Film & Video Video 5 min.
