We are never alone. We are part of a complex, dynamic and interdependentcontinuum whose actors are equally important and necessary. Separations, classifications anddifferences have been used by scientific knowledge to explore and understand the world, yetthey became a legitimated form of establishing hierarchies and supremacies. What if theyremain as simple methodology to learn and wonder about the world we are part of? What ifhybrid forms of life and thinking take over? What if we acknowledge and celebrate our need forcoexistence with other species and non-human agents?
Fascinated by computer networks, in how their infrastructures mirrored ecological systems, a Harvard biologist created the first computer virus to be maliciously released to the public. The virus was trained to target its victims, locking down their computers and holding them to financial ransom. The film finds in its wake encounters between butterflies and other agencies, from children to dogs to koala bears, in the wild and in the home. Using sensorially overloaded found footage gathered online and an archival new age synthesizer score inspired by the sounds of nature, the film is equal parts systems literacy and kaleidoscopic ecological fantasia. This more-than-human collaboration was co-written by an outmoded computer virus and various other early computer viruses, documenting the wild visual affects left as they infected the computer system used to edit the film.… >>>
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German Premiere
- Director: Graeme Arnfield
You used to call me on my cell phone, you used to, you used to. A brief look at the screen was enough to know who is calling: The announcement on the display warns you who is waiting at the other end of the line. There is a brief, decisive, moment before you pick up, to consider whether it would be better to ignore the incoming call, especially in view of the fundamental question of what kind of person makes phone calls today any-more. (Excerpt of: Martin Karcher, But the laser steers all things, 2021)… >>>
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World Premiere
- Director: Paul Spengemann
Magma is a balm for soothing terrestrial aches, a memento of worlds not yet imagined. To exhale is the smallest possible ritual, one that has to do with memory: an old world, a lava lamp, the smell of gas, a suspended bubble; a sacrifice that is the end of all sacrifice. (Anna Tomi)… >>>
Premiere:
German Premiere
- Director: Remi Vesala, Jari Kallio
Mit Blastogenese X inszenieren Conrad Veit und Charlotte Maria Kätzl in zwei Steinbrüchen Niedersachsens einen als Tierdokumentation getarnten Schwarzweißfilm aus hybriden Lebensformen, der kulturell geprägte Grenzziehungen zwischen Mensch und Tier, sowie zwischen dem binären Konstrukt aus Männlichkeit und Weiblichkeit dekonstruiert. Dabei nimmt der 26-minütige 16mm Film den Zuschauenden mit auf eine Reise in die Frühzeit des stummen Films, die sich zu einem utopischen Entwurf einer Gleichberechtigung sämtlichen Lebens entpuppt… >>>
- Director: Charlotte Maria Kätzl, Conrad Veit
