Resilient Bodies of Water, Sensuality, Desire and ghostlike narrations. Mystic
landscapes, fluid movements through space, time and ecologies. Fluid identities ever
transforming, ever in motion.
“If we follow the stones, we can travel along the path of will.” Sara Ahmed writes in “Willful Stones”. „Stones are assumed to be stationary, such that if they move, it is assumed they are moved by something other than themselves.“ In San Francisco Verde, the protagonist swims through a river carrying a stone on her back. How does the stone affect the body and vice versa? What print does the body leave in its environment and what hybrid being evolves through blending physical ecologies and time spheres of water, stone and the human body? The block shaped stone, referring to the silhouette of a back as well as the functional form of a breakwater, embodies saved and condensed time.… >>>
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As the water goes by, Chrishna remembers and tells us about birth, resilience, being and becoming. The spirits of the river are keeping a watchful eye.… >>>
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Places in Bulgaria, characterised by special natural landscapes. Humans appear with an intentional gaze: Either they consume nature or follow worship rituals where nature has a healing power. It is the folklore that makes the clearest approach to nature possible in this mystical appearance: nature becomes the basis of and model for human behaviour, they come together in full value. The film shows different realities that humans construct from their natural environment. We are constantly charging nature with meaning: by seeing faces or figures in cloud or rock formations, by believing in nature as a creative force - or by making it our own in terms of civilisation by imitation. In the end, an artificial sun created by man shines as a counterpoint to the visual worlds of nature's overpowering.… >>>
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- Director: Lyoudmila Milanova
Contoured Thoughts is a meditation on desire, recovery and the rituals of communion. A guide and conspirator alike, Ifekoya takes the viewer to another realm where time all but stands still. Regenerated by the blackness of water and land, the artist offers a moment to share the intimate, the erotic and the otherworldly.… >>>
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Darkness never emerges but it is present. Some kind of teenage wasteland feel, unexpected storms and inviting landscapes are intermeshed together. In a bewitching atmosphere, proximity and distance are revealed through a thoughtful structure where images and sounds confuse both – the imagination and the real. Sensuality and desire are seen as forbidden, somehow, like facing a glass wall. And only by looking back, there is an understanding of finding yourself on a moon-like space/place.… >>>
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- Director: Charlotte Clermont
Between a house in the Atlantic forest and a genetically-modified mosquito factory near São Paulo, a polyamorous, non-binary relationship struggles to survive an epidemic spreading across Brazil. While in the factory millions of mosquitos are born daily inside test tubes, the power dynamics between Helmut, Calixto, and Tao only intensifies. The Bite is a film found somewhere between horror, science fiction and a queer drama.… >>>
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- Director: Pedro Neves Marques
