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Dai Yi Ming Zhi De Shi Wu (The Unnamed)
/ The Unmamed
This film is constructed upon the visual poetry between what you hear and see, and a sensual fluidity that is not based on the cause and effect relationship. It casts away the practicalities and the functionalities commonly defined in real-world objects by returning things to their raw state, and guiding the viewer’s awareness to the finer details, while intertwining layers of poetic imagery.
Director/author: Ya-Li Huang
Taiwan 2010
Film & Video 35 mm 10 min.
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Hortus Harare
/ Hortus Harare
The Botanic Garden of Harare was founded in 1962 as a model of the natural landscape of Zimbabwe. Three years later a war started in the real bushlands. In 1979, the Zimbabwean liberation war ended, overcoming the apartheid system of former Rhodesia and appointing the liberation leader Robert Mugabe as president – who is still in power today. The war had taken place far away from the cities in the bush lands all over the country. In this natural landscape, traumatic scenes of violence and unimaginable atrocities were committed. It has never been officially reported to the Zimbabwean public - until now.
Director/author: Andreas Wutz
Spain 2010
Film & Video 16 mm 5 min.
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Lilong
/ Lilong
Lilong settlement is a ground-related housing pattern, typical of Shanghai. Today, as the city's urban restyling is taking place, this typology is quickly disappearing. Artificially landscaped courtyards of these new estates are rarely used as meeting places by their inhabitants, who prefer public parks and other outdoor spaces for their daily social activities. Lilong is a peculiar collection of individual portraits, of ambiguous repetitive gestures, shadowed by images of high-rise buildings.
Director/author: Valentina Ferrandes
China (PRC) 2010
Film & Video Video 11 min.
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Plänterwald
/ Plänterwald
In Plänterwald the protagonist is a former GDR amusement park abandoned after unification and sitting motionless at the edge of the city of Berlin. The work plays on the absurdity of use of force in relation to the decay and obsolescence of the site as the park's policed borders isolate it from public space. The video quietly, yet relentlessly - like the defunct rollercoaster - echoes the rumbles of deep social and political fault lines and their explosive potential.
Director/author: Lynne Marsh
Germany 2010
Film & Video Video 17 min.
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Smolarze (Charcoal Burners)
/ Charcoal Burners
›Every summer, Marek and Janina work as charcoal burners in the Bieszczady Mountains. Far from civilization, in the heart of the mountains, they live according to the rhythm set by nature. The documentary joins the man and the woman from dawn till dusk, observing the slow passage of time. A visual anthem to the beauty of life.‹ - Vaiko Edur, Parnu Film Festival
Director/author: Piotr Zlotorowicz
Poland 2010
Film & Video Video 15 min.
