It´s a Strange World
The world in its complexity is hard to grasp. Every detail can lead to questions and doubts when looked upon closely. That is why we incorporate patterns of meaning, which usually do their job and enable an everyday life. Still it can happen that one event fundamentally questions our concept of reality. In extreme cases this can lead to identity crisis, psychosis and confused theories. But it can also stimulate and encourage abstract thinking.
Glucose
Chemical processes are a challenge to human thinking, often not conveying with our everyday life experiences. Edibles have an additional sensual component, triggering chemical reactions just by view. Glucose is a dreamlike interpretation of the threshold between science, fantasy and appetite.
- Frankreich
- 07:18 Min.
- Director: Mihai Grecu, Thibault Gleize
- Year: 2012
Inverse Geometrie
A woman equipped with a strange apparatus seems to be measuring apartments of a large housing development. What exactly she is doing remains unclear and no one pays notice. The seemingly uninteresting captures the woman’s attention.
- Deutschland
- 10:13 Min.
- Director: Ginan Juliane Seidl, Ray Peter Maletzki
- Year: 2011
Magnetic Love
Love is one of the most moving emotions for the human psyche, providing happiness, pain and confusion. But the mainstream images of love are dominated by superficiality. LES AIMANTS shows a surreal dream world beyond the pleasing use of traditional symbols.
Latest Memories
With reduced images and his own voice the filmmaker speaks about the cancer death of his wife in 1997. In this year the comet Hale-Bopp was closest to earth. A loving memory of the absurdity surrounding a severe loss.
- Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika
- 08:30 Min.
- Director: Neil Ira Needleman
- Languages: englisch
- Year: 2012
Moving Stories
The phenomenon of air travel has not lost its fascination, combining fundamental desires, fears and promoting imagination. In MOVING STORIES this fascination finds a cinematic form pulling together archive material, film dialogues and a powerful soundtrack.
- Belgien
- 07:15 Min.
- Director: Nicolas Provost
- Languages: englisch
- Year: 2011
The Exodus of the Forgotten
Several people dressed in dark mountain climbing gear are moving through a snow covered landscape, waving their head lights towards the viewer. It remains unclear whether it is a real expedition or a vision of the end of the world.
The Living Room
An intact combination dining and living room is deranged within a short period of time. Where order is destroyed, the awe of absurdly celebrated destruction creates happiness and humor. A well known fact since silent films.
- Niederlande
- 08:13 Min.
- Director: Roderick Hietbrink
- Year: 2011
Rigid Regime
A man without arms flies into the midst of a military dictatorship with a helicopter. He wants to share his visions of freedom. Described as a “pornographic monologue about the certainty of feelings” the film transgresses limits of taste on the journey into the absurdness of the human struggle for liberty.
- Hongkong, China
- 13:17 Min.
- Director: Erkka Nissinen
- Languages: englisch
- Year: 2012