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Black Salt Water Elegy
/ Black Salt Water Elegy
Black Saltwater Elegy intimately links the discordant threads of a popular history of dispossession (Africville) with the solitude of its protagonist's graveyard-shift fantasies. After opening with disquieting archival footage of the demolition of Africville, the film shifts to an austere observational portrait. A palatable sense of the duration of midnight work slowly shifts into subtle gestures that hint towards choreographed events. Eventually, a breach occurs as the protagonist fuses with an emergent dreamscape, where ruined landscapes and the resurrection of an extinct community intertwine. Using the protagonist's disembodied point-of-view, the audience floats above a reconstructed Africville, one forever present, nesting in a bed of saltwater fog.
Director/author: Solomon Nagler
Canada 2010
Film & Video Video 16 min.
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No Blood In My Body
/ No Blood In My Body
›Thomas takes the train, goes to work, hangs around in a wasteland. He promises Claudia that he will take much better care of her than her American family, that she is beautiful and that she saved him. I film them while they are getting high together. After the injection, I share this very moment when they are floating apart, and their solitude when one or another leaves too far away. The shot seems to be what they share the best, but it’s also what drives them further and further apart. The movie settles down into a new temporality, in the shadowy light of the bedroom, in the darkness of the shed you can no longer distinguish night from day. This story isn’t built on linearity, on the repetition of their daily life but, on the contrary, on the sudden appearance of what we’ve missed, and what suddenly explodes in front of us. I’m constantly playing with the boundaries that exist between a real event, caught in the rush of the moment and the reconstruction of what has already happened two days, a week, a month previously. Thomas and Claudia aspire to be free. One day, Claudia overdosed and sank into unconsciousness. Thomas is helpless and angry, and knows that she’s driving herself away from him.‹ Laure Cottin
Director/author: Laure Cottin
France 2010
Film & Video Video 28 min.
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Nur noch 5 Minuten
/ Just 5 more Minutes
This is a film you have to take time for. As a study of time in cinematic perception, Viennese media artist Gerald Zahn visualises 5 minutes by filming a person holding his breath for the duration of the film. In contrast with the casual disregard for mere 5 minutes in the film title, the film fills this period with significance. The emotional turmoils on the actor's face as he fights through every second on the stop-watch, make 5 minutes a cinematic era of tension, doubt and expectation.
Director/author: Gerald Zahn
Austria 2010
Film & Video Video 5 min.
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Ville Marie
/ Ville Marie
The point-of-view of an individual falling from high rise buildings. An optically printed dream of falling, both gorgeous and ominous. The film centers around footage taken from a super 8 camera that has been dropped from a 60 story building, specially rigged to maintain a backwards looking perspective. The concept was born from a dream that Larose had in which he was falling from a high-rise facing up throughout the descent
Director/author: Alexandre Larose
Canada 2010
Film & Video 35 mm 12 min.
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Whiteout
/ Whiteout
A structuralist metafilm about making a film. The movie unfolds itself to the viewer by showing glimpses of it's own filmmaking process. It creates conflict by guiding viewers attention to the material qualities of film medium, while also using narrative form for the representation of the filmmaking process.
Director/author: Mauri Lehtonen
Finland 2010
Film & Video Video 4 min.
