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Cees
/ Cees
A short docu-fiction that arose after I spent several months with my grandfather last year. For two years now, he has felt increasingly isolated from the outer world, confronted by the acute deterioration of his body, loneliness and a longing for intimacy. As for me, I felt the need to spend time with him and look at him from close up, without keeping any kind of distance.
I spent a lot of time filming his body as he was resting. Somehow, it was the trembling of the tiny muscles under the almost see-through skin on the sole of his foot that touched me most. I saw in it a relentless, obstinate, immensely powerful liveliness, but at the same time its undeniable passing by. Looking at him in this way, I saw life in him in its most crude and most tender form.
Cees grew from the desire to become curious, intimate, up close and personal again.
Director/author: Viola Groenhart
France 2010
Film & Video Video 9 min.
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Ciudad de las Flores Muertas
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Inspired by the poems from the book “After the Light, the Stone” by Mexican author Karla Sandomingo.
The images interpret a human relationship in the context of a young couple who reflects upon their mutual passion, leading them to experience routine, hate, frustration and violence.
Director/author: Sharon Toribio
Mexico 2010
Film & Video Video 3 min.
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essLöffel
/ essLoeffel
A woman eats spoons to become pregnant.
Director/author: Kate Haase & Sebastian Hähnel
Germany 2010
Film & Video Video 15 min.
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Fragments of Life
/ Fragments of Life
An experimental short film about mysteries of life. The film contains four parts. They are about birth, love, passion and death. As an art form, Fragments of Life is somewhere on the borderline between painting and cinema.
Director/author: Anastasia Lobkovski
Finland 2009
Film & Video Video 13 min.
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Golden Cage
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By using a collage of images, this work shows an analogy through elements related to two cycles of life. Chicken production for mass human consumption and man as a consumption product of its own society. Both forms of life are affected by external agents that ultimately lose their own nature.
Director/author: Paula Mariana Godinez
Mexico 2010
Film & Video Video 1 min.
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Murhatuolit
/ The Murder Chairs
The Murder Chairs tells seven stories about seven different chairs. They are stories about memory and the hidden violence that surrounds us everywhere.
Director/author: Nalle Mielonen
Finland 2010
Film & Video Video 4 min.
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That Day
/ That Day
A few years after my mother passed away, I try to hold on to her fading image by collecting memory fragments.
Director/author: Iris Blumenshtein
Israel 2010
Film & Video Video 5 min.
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The most beautiful view
/ The most beautiful view
A short movie about a girl called Mei who travels around the world and sends postcards to her old friend Lin who donated his eyes to Mei before he died. The screen is divided into two parts to illustrate Mei’s travel experiences and her writing postcards.
Director/author: Liangchuan Sun
USA 2010
Film & Video 35 mm 4 min.
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Vadders Spur
/ Trace of Vadders
After his father’s death, the son continues cooking his father’s favorite meals. The inherited calculating machine has become more than a machine - a substitute for the departed father. While the son is convinced the machine is trying to communicate something to him, the machine itself is observing the son’s culinary activities through a kitchen board, now an interface. The film explores robot-like categories and the possibility of attributing aura to a machine.
Director/author: Mandy Meißner
Germany 2010
Film & Video Video 4 min.
