Something is weird in the magical forest

Something’s not quite right here. Are we not supposed to recognise what’s wrong, or will we find out later? Are we unable to understand the irony or see the whole picture? Let’s enter the magical forest together! Postindustrial, based on a poem of the same name by Kaloyan Pramatarov, takes us into the surreal Daliesque animation worlds of Boris Pramatarov. Organs, organic material and fantasy images combine to create a dystopian roundel. In Navigator, a specific image is abstracted in the camera detail and confronts us with mirror surfaces cut at an increasingly rapid pace. What we actually see is not explained in the film. In Three Dimensions of Time, Pim Zwier takes photographs by Sergey Prokudin-Gorskii as his starting point to decompose film portraits of people and urban landscapes in Siberia into overlapping primary colours. Not Even Nothing Can Be Free Of Ghosts remains abstract and black-and-white, and presents itself as a hallucinoid flicker whose images and electronic hum develop a hypnotic effect. In his computer-generated therapy video Something About Silence, Patrick Buhrüber reflects in a highly ironic manner on his boring audience, pigeons and his malicious wife. His best piece of advice: listen closely to the sound of unsold fashion. Gilmore Tamny’s DIY performance video, which she calls, with a wink, her “experimental, highly sentimental anthemic pop song/poem”, is all about cats and thunder, and nothing else. Thunderbolts and lightning: Thunder Kitten Thunder!