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NARRATIVE SELECTION   |  FEBRUARY 2020<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Fairyocious <\/strong>(2019)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Fabien Ara<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: France<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 13:21<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: SIMON : \u201dI want to be a girl, mommy.\u201d\nAlma freezes. She doesn\u2019t know how to react: from now on, her 8-year-old son\nwants to dress up like a fairy to go to school. She asks for help from her\nneighbors. Soon the whole building is debating on Simon\u2019s choice for gender\norientation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Digital Connection <\/strong>(2019)<\/strong>  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Tarek Shayne Tabet<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: Germany<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 13:07<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: In a near future where digital avatars\nof the dead are created in Virtual Reality, a father cannot cope with the loss\nof his son.   He frequently visits him in\nVirtual Reality. By doing so he neglects his daughter and smears the line\nbetween Reality and its digital counterpart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Tale Of Salt And Sea (2019)\n<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Giuseppe Francesco Maione<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: Italy<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 25:00<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: A mother hides her children in the countryside, forcing them to a\ncloistered life without joy, freedom and taste. The children, now grown up and\neager to know the world, break the rituals of the mother and face the\nconsequences.     <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Prisoner (2019) <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Harvey Eaton<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: United Kingdom<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 05:20<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: A short psychological horror set in Victorian England, inspired\nby  ‘The Prisoner’, a poem by Emily\nBront\u00eb.  A young woman tries to escape\nher oppressive marriage, but as her suffocating anxiety grows, she is unsure if\nshe can escape the demon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Girl in the Jeep (2020)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Alexey Zuev<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: Russian Federation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 23:44<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: A small town life of 75 year old retired teacher seems empty and\nmundane. Everything changes when he meets a woman, whom he saves from fired up\nbandits. In that moment his past and present gain some meaning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Home <\/strong>(2019)  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Paul Morris<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: United Kingdom<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 19:40<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: When a lonely young girl meets a local farmhand claiming to be\nheld captive, can she help him or will his secret keep them both prisoner?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

HERMA (2020)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Beauron Eric<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: France<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 29:00<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: At the edge of the world, four men live on one abandoned island.\nOne morning, a dead man is discovered in a boat. It’s the beginning of a series\nof catastrophes. The fish is dying, the sea is empty … Se\u00e1n Beag, the young\ndisciple of Marcus, then seeks to restore the order of things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

KRIM (2019)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Manuel H\u00fcttner<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: Austria<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 09:59<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: In a dystopian vision of the future, a mysterious secret agent is\nlost on a mission. When her commanding division picks her up again, they\nperform a series of tests in a harsh government facility.  They find something\u2019s missing from her\nmemories, a new objective that she is determined to keep to herself. A\nmanipulative game of questions and answers evolves. KRIM is a transhumanist\nsci-fi thriller that asks how far we are willing to go.  It questions the human tendency to authoritarian\nstructures, explores technological advances impacting the nature of conflicts\nand what freedom means to the individual identity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Numb (2019)<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Rachel Wan<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: Netherlands<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 05:09<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: Numb is a short surreal story about a man\u2019s bizarre\nday and how he just goes with it.  Carl\nis an ordinary man with an ordinary life. He is one of us. But his day is about\nto get a little unordinary. It starts with his morning coffee unexpectedly turning\ninto some beer-like liquid. Then, as he opens the microwave for the leftover\npizza he put in earlier, the bizarreness just continues.   Carl seems numb that he just rolls with all\nthe surreal flow. But how are these bizarre occurrences any different from\nwhat\u2019s happening in the world today? Carl is numb. But he is one of us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cavity (2019<\/strong>)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Ian Adelson<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: United States<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 13:52<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: On a night out with friends in NYC, Cleo, a troubled and\nuncertain young actress is seduced by a mysterious figure at the bar.  A film about a young woman finding one’s\nstrength in the darkest of times. A film starring, written and produced by\nRebecca Knox.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unwelcomed (2019)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Hossein Mirzamohammadi<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: Iran, Islamic Republic of<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 21:00<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: Ladan ( an Iranian actress ) is supposed to be the main character\nof her husband’s (Arash ) first movie. It also will be the first appearance of\nher in a movie. However she has been acting in theatre for a long time. She\ndoes everything and rehearsing a lot to do her best in the movie. She also\ndropped her role in a play to increase her efforts in her role in the movie.\nLadan knows it’s not easy to be an actress in Iran. But, she is determined to\nbe recognized by her role in the movie. Just before the shooting starts, she\nfinds out that, Arash and the producer of the movie have swapped her with\nanother girl because, she offered them money for the movie production. So,\nLadan faces two choices, her dream work or her life . But, she chooses revenge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Akam (2019)<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Hossein Mirzamohammadi<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: Iran, Islamic Republic of<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 16:07<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: Akam is a 10 years old Kurdish boy, who lives in a\nvillage far from city. On a day of his sister\u2019s wdding , he is told by his\nfather to go beyond the village to bring him some bricks to fix the main pool\nin village for the wedding ceremony. So, Akam leaves the village and, when he\ngets back, he faces a disaster. He finds everyone dead exept his mother, who is\ndeaf and, doesn\u2019t have any idea of what happened when Akam was gone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Air Seller (2020)<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Soran Ebrahim<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: Iraq<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 10:07<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Citizen (2019)<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Mehdi Mokhtari<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: Iran, Islamic Republic of<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 25:00<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: There is an organization which believes that people\nshould make themselves empty from anger so that no crimes will happen.\nTherefore they give special services to people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TIMES (2020)<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Anya Semenova<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: United States<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 01:40<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: A story of how to get to the wrong place at the wrong\ntime in exactly 2 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bad Furniture (2020)<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Randall Maxwell<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: United States<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 09:59<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: A man insists on being furniture for his wife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the Hunt (2019)<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Ur\u0161ka Djuki\u0107<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: Slovenia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 19:00<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: Silva, a middle – aged woman and an ardent hunter,\ndecides to take her teenage daughter for a first hunt. But the initiating trip\ndoesn\u2019t exactly go as she would have wished. Silva returns home n ot with a\nwild boar, but with a doubt about her identity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Bull (2019)<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Bojan Labovi\u0107<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: Slovenia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 12:17<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: Milan Veber, a 40-year-old unemployed art teacher, has been without a job\nand, of course, also chronically broke for quite a while. He lives in a cheap\nsmall studio apartment that he rents in what used to be a lively working-class\nquarter of an industrial city, feeling too young to grow old and too old to\nstart over \u2013 until the moment when he wants to open a can of beef stew after a\nnight of drinking. At that point he looks through the window and sees a bull in\nthe street. A bull who has just escaped from the slaughterhouse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paradise (2019)<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Mitja Li\u010den, Sonja Prosenc<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: Slovenia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 25:00<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: Anna and Lars are staying on a remote Mediterranean\nisland for their summer holidays. It feels like paradise, until an unexpected\nencounter puts their relationship to a test and makes them re-evaluate what\nthey want from each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sixth Grade (2020) <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Yuzhuo Wang<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: China<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 18:06<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: Gege, a sixth-grade girl, is moving away from the old\nneighborhood because her parents have decided to send her to one of the best\nmiddle schools of the city. She, with her best friend Wanli \u2013 a boy, in order\nto \u2018be together forever\u2019, comes up with many tricks to prevent her parents from\nmoving, but finally realizes that nothing could be changed, they have to say\ngoodbye. At last, however, Wanli comes up with an idea\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

RUFUS (2019) <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Oskar Zakrzewski<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: Poland<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 18:39<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: Dark comedy about Janek, who wants something more from life. More\nmoney, more splendor, more respect. Unfortunately he doesn\u2019t know how to\nachieve it. He works in a car workshop with his best friend Tomek. Things get\ncomplicated when Janek\u2019s to do a \u201cfavor\u201d to Mr. Marian \u2013 the rich and\ninfluential father of his girlfriend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let the World go on\nSleeping (2020) <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Michael Charles Slavich<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: United States<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 11:31<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: Depicting a vision, Let the World go on Sleeping grounds us in an\nunfamiliar dream. Greeted by a chain of mothers and fathers, a man must make\npeace with his world in order to save it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Mother (2020) <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Le Huy Anh<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: Viet Nam<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 04:42<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: An adult man’s journey to find his childhood again.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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STUDENT SELECTION   |   FEBRUARY 2020<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Year of the Dog (2018) <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Vasily Ilyinsky<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: Russian Federation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 09:40<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: Grandparents are waiting for their guests, a beloved grandson\nwith his wife, since early morning. Their visits are so rare these days. On New\nYear\u2019s everybody sits at the festive table reminiscing about the passing year,\nyouth, life. And what is there for them in the New Year \u2013 the Year of the Dog?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something More (2019)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Varvara \u0160atunova<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: Czech Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 06:28<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: Obsession: static and dynamic process at the same time. The\nMathematician produces large quantity of numbers and formulas, however they are\nconstantly sent back to his table, with plenty of dissatisfied comments. The\nprotagonist slowly enters the cycle of redefinition of one and the same thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LA PETITE FOLIE (2019)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Massimo Zannoni<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: United Kingdom<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 12:33<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: Occupied Paris 1943. A group of misfits, comrades in the\nunderground bohemian lifestyle, come together to defy the oppression of the new\nworld order. As a group, they take one final stand to prove the resilience of\nthe human spirit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Sch\u00fctzin (2020)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Simon Baucks<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: Germany<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 19:59<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: Wherever she appears, the shooter brings quick and painless death\nwith great reliability. Shooting requires her to be completely immersed in the\npresent. Death appears to her as great sleep, life as fleeting. But she tries to\nstrike a balance between professional and private life, because she is in love\n– with a kindergarten teacher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WORK SAMPLE (2019)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Garry Savenkov<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: Germany<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 09:20<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: Middle Ages:Hans\ncomes to an job interview for executioners. After a short conversation, he has\nto prove himself and  demonstrate a\nsample of work!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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DOCUMENTARY SELECTION   |   FEBRUARY 2020<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

ASCONA (2019)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Julius Dommer<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: Germany<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 15:00<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: ASCONA shows a place that seems to have fallen out of time, that\nhas not changed since the 1950s but still exists. A miniature golf course\nbecomes a social analysis analogy. \nASCONA shows protagonists who with dry humour describe the beginnings\nand difficulties of the course and the sport – between leisure and professional\nsport.  Reflecting the conversatism of\nthe 1950s ASCONA features a cross-section of society. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Awake (2020)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Matan Rochlitz<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: United Kingdom<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 16:25<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: Awake is a short film by Shift.ms that explores the interplay\nbetween Multiple Sclerosis, sleep and mental health. It is an experimental\ndocumentary film that unfolds over one night. Voices from real late-night phone\ncalls are woven together to reflect on life and death from the unique\nperspective of those experiencing both insomnia and a neurological disease. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bet on Yourself (2019)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Harvey Eaton<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: United Kingdom<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 20:25<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: John Reeve, an 80 year old entrepreneur who started his life in\nwar-torn England, now lives in the Caribbean as a cruise ship excursion\nmogul.   John owned an island-themed\nnightclub in the centre of Coventry, hosting crooners like Dusty Springfield,\nLiberace and Tom Jones. He intrepidly sailed across the Atlantic with no\nexperience and no motor, has crashed at least three airplanes and two boats,\nlived with Pygmy Indians, had his skull caved in with a 4ft iron pipe, escaped\nfrom a Grenadian revolution, and entered the ’88 Winter Olympics as the US\nVirgin Islands bobsled team (yes, the same year as the Jamaicans).   Nothing in life has ever stopped John and he\nis an inspiration for everyone to go out, make mistakes and make a mark on the\nworld.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Phoenix (2019)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Florian Felix Koch<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: Germany<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 13:32<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: Markus is a professional BMX-Rider from Wuppertal, Germany. He\nnearly died in an assault in 2016. This documentary is about his mental\nprocess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alzheimer Cafe (2019)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Martin Draksler<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: Slovenia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 18:04<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: Ivan and Jo\u017eica, a married couple, move to a care home after 70\nyears of sharing their lives. Despite the hardships of old age, they continue\nto live together in the new environment. Memories are fading, love remains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Jewish Soldier and\nthe Arab Doctor (2019)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Rajiv Nair, Daniel Ostrem<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: United States<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 04:13<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: When Jewish IDF soldier Chen Schwartz was shot by a terrorist in\nJerusalem, he was rushed in critical condition to Hadassah Hospital, where\nIsraeli Arab doctor Ahmed Eid faced a tremendous challenge. Experience the\nremarkable story of what happened next in this Israel Collective film.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

IN SANE 2020 (2020)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: PETER EVANCHUCK , HELENE LACELLE<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 17:33<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: Using our own limited resources what started as a home movie 20\nyears, 20,000k’s later IN SANE becomes a real and raw documentary: not\nrehearsed or scripted, we shot what unfolded as MARCO revealed his life as a bi\npolar, photographer travelling across Canada photographing UNESCO world heritage\nsites  living the life he loved as\nhealing therapy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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ANIMATION SELECTION   |   FEBRUARY 2020<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Shameless & More (2020)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Fausto Montanari<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: Italy<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 01:34<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: The structure of this film is built around a series of daily life\nepisodes where the concept of absence is the main protagonist of the scene. The\nirreverence of throwing out shitty ideas in a context where people cannot avoid\nconsidering them, the lack of support, of personal care, or of psychological\ndepth are the elements that are ironically and metaphorically represented in\nthis sequence of episodes, where the title of each one creates a fil rouge with\nthe next. The irreverence of throwing out shitty ideas in a context where\npeople cannot avoid considering them, the lack of support, of personal care, or\nof psychological depth are the elements that are ironically and metaphorically\nrepresented in this series, where the title of each one creates coherent\nsequence of episodes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Loop (2019) <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Anna Boli\u0144ska<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: Poland<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 04:21<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Music Box (2019)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Joe Chang<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 11:29<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: The Great Chinese Cultural Revolution was a political campaign in\nChina launched and led by Mao Zedong from 1966 to 1976. Nearly ten million\npeople, including outstanding scientists, artists, intellectuals and ordinary\npeople, died during these “Ten Years of Turnmoil” or “Ten Years\nof Holocaust.”  This animated short\nfilm is based on a real story and sets in China during the Cultural Revolution\nin 1967, It is about a young boy Liang Liang, whose family is suddenly taken to\nthe countryside by Red Guards. He is able to grab the only thing he treasures\nwhich is a western style music box, and is careful not to expose it to the red\nguards since it was linked to western culture.  \nThe film mirrors tragedies that befall children and families who are\nforced to leave their homes, due to war, colonization and political campaigns –\nunfortunately a situation which is all too common today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dreams Into Drawing (2019)\n<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Koji Yamamura<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: Japan<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 10:10<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: The painter KUWAGATA KEISAI lived over 200 years ago. He\nillustrated Ways to Sketch a series of picture books depicting humans and\nanimals, all richly expressed. One day he was sketching a carp when suddenly he\nfell asleep and, in his dream, transfigured into a carp. The carp was enjoying\nhis swim, but when a fisherman caught him things suddenly took a turn for the\nworse…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Triptych (2020) <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Sergey Maslov<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: Not Specified<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 03:25<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: \u2018Triptych\u2019 is a non-commercial short three-act film that reflects\nmy attempt to visualize the laws and theories of the astrophysics in an art\nway. Also a few thoughts about the modern art are included in the narration.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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EXPERIMENTAL SELECTION   |   FEBRUARY 2020<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Tri-Alogue #4 (2020)  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Caryn Cline, Linda\nFenstermaker, Reed O’Beirne<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: United States<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 03:25<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: The subtle movement of a dancer\u2019s arms invites three panels of\nfilm into one frame in this micro-symphony of sounds and images in which the\nchanging light evokes the passing of times. \nHuman and non-human, interior and exterior co-exist in this highly\nimprovisational yet serendipitous portrait of a changing Seattle in late August\nunder a fire-choked sun.  Co-authored by\nCaryn Cline, Linda Fenstermaker and Reed O\u2019Beirne on the same Bolex 16mm camera\nwith a lens masked to subdivide the frame of the film roll into thirds. Since\nwe shoot on the same roll of film, the editing (and therefore the choreography)\nis done in-camera.  Featuring dance &\nchoreography by Emily Durand, and a score by Rachael Cohen with Andrea Di\nBiase.  By presenting three filmmakers\nwork simultaneously within a single 16mm frame, the Tri-Alogue series offers a\ncomplexity of perspective that undermines the omniscient cinematic gaze and\nevokes a deeper relational mystery.   \nCollaborating to subdivide a 16mm filmframe into thirds, the three\nfilmmakers present their separately-shot-segments simultaneously within one\nspatial plane. From the interplay of these three points of view, emerges a\ncinematic conversation based on a horizontal compositional logic within the\nshared frame. This combined connotative-relationship between the subframes\nevokes a spectacle of fractured spatial and temporal perspective.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Huo Zhe (2020)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Kino Lee<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: Taiwan<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 03:06<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: Hands are us, water is how the life treating us, and we as\naudiences are watching the life from far. The title “Huo Zhe” means\n“living” in Mandarin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fag-end (2020)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Allana Chumachenko<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: Russian Federation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 08:55<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: A young architect, struggling with disturbing dreams, performs a\nroutine ritual, appearing every day at work, developing a project for a large\ncompany. Every day, over and over again, he begins to notice that the features\nof his own face, his voice, his laughter, the lines that his hand draws itself\nsometimes out of his control. All this reminds him of some other person, a\nperson who is familiar to him from the childhood, but whom he has never met. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

SEARCHING FOR THE PERFECT\nGENTLEMAN \u2014 AN INVESTIGATIVE JOURNEY (2019)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Lena Windisch<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: Germany<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 09:55<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: Searching for the Perfect Gentleman is a documentary about the\nsearch of an African barber shop poster. The virtual journey takes the viewer\nto various African, European and Asian countries, in order to find the place\nwhere it was originally created, produced and sold. What seems easy in the\nbeginning turns out to be a demanding process, yet an interesting experience in\naccessing information, communicating with people from totally different\nbackgrounds and indulging in uncertainty, to celebrate the search itself \u2014\nwherever it may lead. The film shows how boundaries between originality and\nreproduction merge, in a world where everything can be remixed and reprinted\neasily. Searching for the Perfect Gentleman tells a multi-layered story about\ntrust, persistence and interconnectedness in a globalized world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Memories from Now (2020)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Katja Lell<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: Germany<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 10:11<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: How to remember images that had to be left behind, a language\nthat we cannot speak any longer or the taste of tomatoes from our former garden\nin Russia? The film reconstructs my family’s gardens in Russia 1974\/1994 and\nGermany 2019. The narration in the film circulates around fragments of memories,\nbetween strangeness and familiarity, distance and proximity. We raise our\nvoices to reimagine another garden, a different language and a new home in a\nspace in-between.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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MUSIC VIDEO SELECTION   |   FEBRUARY 2020<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Gulda (2020)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Elena Molina<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: Spain<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 04:23<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: The internationally recognized as the terrible enfant of piano\nFrancesco Tristano has not only recorded a new interpretation of “Prelude\nand Fuge”. Together with his illustrator friend Daniel Jimenez and under\nthe direction of Elena Molina, they have recorded a video clip in a kind of\nhappening, homage to Gulda and his rebel spirit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lucky Chops – Traveler (2019)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Raman Djafari, Daniel Almagor<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: Germany<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 03:45<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: The music video for \u201cTraveler\u201d starts in a small forgotten\nvillage, a place that feels like it was left in the attic. It\u2019s a place in\nstasis, where it\u2019s hot and moist, so that the cloths stick to the body.\nEverything and everyone is waiting, staring, sinking into the ground. And then\nthere\u2019s a march, a start to an unknown adventure, a daring call by an unheard\nchant. Both are truths of a shivering dream. Where do they go, the ones that\nleave? What happens to the ones that stay? For now there\u2019s only the beautiful\nuncertainty of a choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bastille, Alessia Cara –\nAnother Place (2019)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Anna Radchenko, Jeremy Schaulin-Rioux<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country: United Kingdom<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: 04:00<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: Another Place is a surrealist music video directed by Anna\nRadchenko & Jeremy Schaulin-Rioux for English alternative rock band\nBastille, featuring Canadian singer, songwriter Alessia Cara.  The video sees Bastille frontman Dan Smith as\nhe struggles to keep his home from falling apart. All the while, a giant version\nof Alessia Cara looks through and taps on the windows sending shockwaves\nthroughout the building.  Another Place\nstands as an evocative representation of a person\u2019s distress caused by a\nbreakup, seeking to keep one’s inner sanctuary intact by shutting off painful\nmemories trying to make their way in.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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