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• (Waiting) Off My Chest / (Waiting) Off My Chest
  As the protagonist waits for a lawyer (she is about to sign a ›living will‹) she thumps through a book called ›Cosa Nostra‹. We hear her words raw and charged, touching upon emotions and thoughts about life, death and the anger and angst she feels towards the idea of having to take someone else's life.Who is she? We don't know much about her,we will gain knowledge of some startling revelations.
  Director/author: Maria Niro 
  USA   2010
  Film & Video Video 3 min.
  
   
• Boundary / Boundary
  ‹Set among an isolated community in a remote landscape near the Russian border, BOUNDARY evokes a space of ambiguity, a psychogeography, an absence of personal histories. It is the first installment in a tetralogy of films based on a statement by Sadeq Hedayat: ›In life it is possible to become angelic, human, or animal. I have become none of these things.‹
  Director/author: Devin Horan 
  Latvia   2009
  Film & Video Video 16 min.
  
   
• Brune Renault /  
  It seems an ordinary Saturday night. Four French teenagers are involved in their everyday conversations, sitting inside their car, driving around the nightly city, illuminated by streetlights. Maybe they plan to visit someone, to have a drink, or maybe they are on their way to a party. Typical teenage drama unfolds, and the four youngsters passionately engage themselves in the banal and self-centered chitchat typical for adolescents all over the world. After some time, they fall into repetition and get caught in an endless loop of superficialities about youth, romance and personal relationships. The four teenagers are the protagonists in a road movie with the flair and nonchalance of classical French cinema, but are trapped in a story without a fixed beginning or end. They have an air of glamour around them, looking and behaving like professional actors. The viewer is drawn into the action because of the very convincing atmosphere, acting, sound and lighting, But at various moments and scenes, just when the spectators� disbelief is suspended, the camera takes some distance and shows the road movie�s set: a run-down and abandoned garage. The young protagonists appear to be filmed inside a wrecked and run-down car, which sits in the middle of the garage, lifted on a pedestal and cut into four pieces. A shift takes place: the set becomes a sculpture, the film transforms into a document. The teenagers� glamour is brutally unmasked; the already empty storyline dissolves into disbelief again. In �Brune Renault�, Ne�l Beloufa continues his exploration of cinematic language and conventions. In his works, he investigates popular film genres, looks for their limitations and lets them transcend into visual art. Like in �Kempinski�, a science fiction movie filmed in a village in Mali, Beloufa introduces unconventional and disturbing elements into the storyline and travels back and forth between fiction and everyday life.
  Director/author: Neïl Beloufa 
  France   2009
  Film & Video Video 17 min.
  
   
• Das Gespenst des Glücks / The Ghost of Happiness
  A man and a woman in a big embrace. The TV shows a couple dancing in a Hollywood musical. The man and woman attempt to follow suit, but their movements are wooden and their feet leaden, as if under extra gravitational pull. Their perseverance completely robs their dance of the lightness of the original. All that remains is the melancholy cast of failure.
  Director/author: Max Philipp Schmid 
  Switzerland   2011
  Film & Video Video 9 min.
  
   
• Gyre / Gyre
  Luminous white, diamond-shaped forms glide from right to left across a jet-black plane in Cinemascope format. Minimal variations in their movement can be seen. Subtle changes in the light and the camera's distance and angle transform this presumably abstract animation into a concrete setup for a filmic and architectural experiment. (Norbert Pfaffenbichler)
  Director/author: Björn Kämmerer 
  Austria   2010
  Film & Video 35 mm 9 min.
  
   
• Neutral / Neutral
  Neutral is a video that works with the narrative of a couple's car breaking down, and is engaged mostly with the repetition of their actions in this sort of limbo period of waiting for assistance. Within this there is a kind of heightened awareness of their surroundings, which becomes even more so by the occurrence of inexplicable things
  Director/author: Dan Walwin 
  United Kingdom   2010
  Film & Video Video 11 min.