The video follows a special form of communication. The prison in Gelsenkirchen (Germany) has an unusual architecture: The men‘s and the women‘s sections are positioned vis-à-vis, divided by a sports field. This situation allows the so-called “faxing”: By writing letters in the air, whole conversations are held, mostly between dialog partners who have never met each other face to face – an existential means of communication, whether it‘s to kill some time or to dream of a shared future.… >>>
Nominated:
Goldener Key
“Are you alright?”, a young woman kindly asks the passers-by in the office corridors of the trendy East-London coworking space “Second Home”, softly touching them on the shoulder. But not all of the co-workers appreciate her gentle approaches. THE STROKER is based on performance artist Pilvi Takala’s two week-long intervention at Second Home, during which Takala posed as wellness consultant Nina Nieminen, founder of the start-up “Personnel Touch”, providing touching services in the workplace.… >>>
In a faceless apartment in Tatekawa, Tokyo, an american woman hires a Japanese woman to translate interviews about Japan’s declining birthrate. The American woman is presumptuous in her knowledge of Japan; the Japanese woman suffers from a self-professed excess of critical distance. They grate, fight, and crash together in love or lust, at which point their story gets hijacked into science fiction territory, as the translator interrupts their work sessions with stories from a world infected with the knowledge of its own demise. The third protagonist is the Tatekawa itself, a canal covered by an elevated highway, which gives the neighborhood its name and runs past the translator’s apartment.… >>>
“Goodbye Thelma” are the fathers parting words before his daughter embarks on a road trip on her own. Apparently, he doesn’t remember what happens to Thelma, why she and Louise end up on the run. But his daughter does. GOODBYE THELMA synthesizes footage from the 1991 film Thelma & Louise and footage of the author to create a mysterious, and at times disturbing, auto-fictional exploration of the joys and terrors of traveling as a woman alone.… >>>
Nominated:
Goldener Key
- Director: Jessica Bardsley