Valentin talks to his older sister, who's a filmmaker. A portrait about the generation 2000, about family pressure, being fifteen, social media self-image, crisis and neo-capitalist structures.… >>>
The main heroes of the film are the young people from Kharkiv, a city located in the Eastern part of Ukraine. Reaching their early twenties coincided with the breakout of the war in the neighbouring region of Donbass. An LGBT activist and poet, a fashion model, a group of street artists, a creator of a computer game – all of them are artists or working in the creative industries, typical for a peaceful life of a big city. However, the proximity to the war affects each of the characters and their activities. Heroes react and reflect political events through their specific relationships with the urban space and the reality of the social media.… >>>
The film exposes the raw beginnings of creative thought processes, and questions the artists’ role within an environment of conspicuous poverty and an increasingly middle class art world that is in danger of becoming insular and self-serving. The filmmaker questions the relationship between artwork, societal situations within which art is produced and the notion of artistic privilege. Artists are not working in isolation in an ivory tower imbued with gifted foresight or some out-dated myth of genius. The film depicts the artistic reactions to the homeless woman sleeping in the doorway of the studio. And how they the artists and the women living in the street affected each other.… >>>
Since 2017 the Giant Panda Bears Meng Meng and Jiao Qing were hired out to the Berlin Zoo from China to attract more visitors and to therefore increase profit. Unfortunately for the Berlin Zoo this advertising campaign did not work out as planned – in fact it worked backwards. Meng Meng, the female Panda will only walk backwards – probably protesting the fact that she is kept in captivity and in a totally different continent from her origins. But instead of rethinking the problematic concepts of zoos in general, international media is taking on a different debate: blaming Meng Meng’s behavior on the fact that she has not bred yet and is just looking for attention.… >>>
Acting Erratically is a term typically used by law enforcement when they believe they are encountering someone experiencing mental distress. This short film explores the connections between freedom of movement and state sanctioned violence in the lives of NYC-based women and gender-non-conforming people of color by critically engaging with the archive and using found footage as metaphorical architecture. A narrative of resistance is explored through the first person by Mecca, who re-appropriates the idea of Acting Erratically as a powerful and performative response to systemic oppression and police violence. This film was made collaboratively with members of Picture of The Homeless and Black Youth Project 100 (NYC Chapter).… >>>
Using animation as a provocation tool, the film explores the ongoing crises under white patriarchy, relaying and augmenting feelings and gestures of chronic unease, protest and dissent. In a colorful and somehow hallucinatory way, the filmmaker’s statements storms in via menstrual blood, rising up against leadership circle-jerks, weeping vortexes, seared Orang-Utans, animal-fat banknotes, and advancing supermoons, pizzas and drones.… >>>