Into the Twilight Zone
From between billowing clouds of foam, tense bodies appear, sneakily passing through the image. The youngsters whose gazes and gestures alternate between aggression and fear, provocation and fallback are fully focused on their opponent – the bull, a physically superior force of nature that they are trying to corner. TOURNEUR transforms the adrenaline rush of a bullfight spectacle in Southern France into a balancing act between observational documentation, artful stylization and subtle commentary.… >>>
Nominated:
Goldener Key
A small group of children has set up a temporary camp. They are lying inside their sleeping bags. Then, one by one, they get up. They know their ritual. An enigmatic choreography ensues: whispering, humming and mumbling, movements and gestures – an obscure scene full of strange actions evoking obsession, child's play, hypnosis and worship.… >>>
- Director: Julia Charlotte Richter
SHOUTING AT THE GROUND is an agricultural and archaeological murder mystery circling around a void, oscillating its images and sounds between states of violent networked embodiment and pitch black absence, of burial and exhumation. In a peat bog in North West England a Spanish woman was murdered, her body buried and subsumed into the treacherously dense ecological matter. A matter which labours have extracted for centuries, selling this fertile material as fuel worldwide; a material which upon burning releases timeless carbon deposits into our increasingly precarious and damaged ecosphere. After laying dormant under the rich dark peat for an unknown amount of time a body returned to the surface but its identity had become dislocated; it has become entwined with the history of its material host.… >>>
Nominated:
Goldener Key
- Director: Graeme Arnfield
“While he mused on the effect of the flowing sands, he was seized from time to time by hallucinations in which he himself began to move with the flow.“ (Kōbō Abe) Liminal zones. Floating particles. Fire, water, earth, air. Voices of fictional characters: sometimes suggestive, sometimes strict, leading the viewer away from the here and now. Who's talking? The relationship between the hypnotized subject and the hypnotist is mirrored in the spectator's relationship to the screen.… >>>
- Director: Matthias Müller
A dark, moist grotto, an underworld of abysmal artificiality. Surfaces of stone and water appear, illuminated by elaborately arranged spotlights, underscored with the sound of horror. Behind black screens zombies emerge, with lacerated, fragmented, modified bodies and a transfixed gaze. Artfully isolated fragments of fear and suspense.… >>>
- Director: Katrina Daschner
