Nominees for Best Experimental 2020
People doing moves
Director: Таэт Vremya art group
Country: Russian Federation
Duration: 08:39
Synopsis: The movement of everyday life is often so familiar to us that we barely consciously perceive it. Our work is the attempt to make the seemingly-familiar movements unfamiliar (and vice versa) through repetition and alienation with the question: „Who actually controls whom?“
The Mini-Move research deals what an individual body can do. The intention is to recognize movements that have relevance to its body. For a short moment individual or social sculptures can emerge in space.
THE DIVINE WAY
Director: Ilaria Di Carlo
Country: Germany
Duration: 15:00
Synopsis: The path to paradise begins in hell” — Dante Alighieri. Loosely based on Dante’s Divine Comedy, The Divine Way takes viewers along on the protagonist’s epic descent through an endless labyrinth of staircases. As the woman journeys deeper, the staircases mutate and she is trapped and pulled into their dangerous landscape, conducting us through more than fifty magnificent locations.
CONTACT
Director: Lamara Sogomonyan
Country: Russian Federation
Duration: 02:58
Synopsis: #contact
DUYIQINGJING
Director: YUAN Lingxi
Country: China
Duration: 08:00
Synopsis: DUYIQINGJING is a Buddhism term which means if you are concerned by karma at a certain level you can see three space: past, present, future. A man who can see previous life finds his girl at a bar, while it turns out he is a patient runs out from a hospital named ‘Godlike’
BAILAORA
Director: Rubin Stein
Country: Spain
Duration: 15:00
Synopsis: “A war. A child. A dream.”
Upcycle
Director: Evgenia Zaitseva, Stanislav Phalkov
Country: Russian Federation
Duration: 17:07
Synopsis: The upcycle project is part of a huge collaboration with stylists, musicians and models. An experiment with a form in which you can come up with amazing results. The objectives of recycling are to draw public attention to environmental issues, reduce waste and foster a culture of responsible consumption.
Daddy hockey
Director: Pasha Timofeev
Country: Russian Federation
Duration: 02:03
Synopsis: If I knew how precious these moments would become, I’d catch every word you say, DAD!
BUOY
Director: David Magnier
Country: Ireland
Duration: 05:34
Synopsis: A young man throws himself off a lighthouse to end it all, but it’s just the beginning.
At the Time
Director: Nathan Johnson
Country: United States
Duration: 10:00
Synopsis: “At the Time” follows an individual’s relationship with addiction and the internal struggle that is yoked with that relationship. It is inspired by a loved one’s personal story of what they had experienced, at the time when they were at their deepest struggle.
The animal that therefore I am
Director: Bea de Visser
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 10:37
Synopsis: “What does the animal see when it looks at me?” Three animals and a woman in an enclosed space. As they study each other, their own methods of communication create a wordless conversation. We view them in close-up and from various perspectives, with the woman as a solitary species in this universe.
OMI
Director: Mira Ravald
Country: Finland
Duration: 13:44
Synopsis: OMI is an ode to water on a thin surface of a tight wire. Inspired by mythologies of water deities, the short film OMI is a blend of dance and circus, combining elements of both afro-Cuban and Finnish folklore. Exploring the similarities of these opposite cultures and balancing within duality, OMI pays homage to the water deity Yemaya and the serene Finnish landscape of lakes and forests.
Fag-end
Director: Allana Chumachenko
Country: Russian Federation
Duration: 08:55
Synopsis: A young architect, struggling with disturbing dreams, performs a routine ritual, appearing every day at work, developing a project for a large company. Every day, over and over again, he begins to notice that the features of his own face, his voice, his laughter, the lines that his hand draws itself sometimes out of his control. All this reminds him of some other person, a person who is familiar to him from the childhood, but whom he has never met.