In this diverse program – featuring animations, experimental and documentary hybrids – filmmakers examine how social systems fail due to uneducational, anti-feminist, insensitive or capitalist constraints. In critical and humorous observations, they scrutinize these realities. In doing so, they also see rays of hope in everyday perceptions or manage to tolerate circumstances and develop understanding through their observations. (Joey Arand)
The dance training from my childhood, imprinted in my body's postures, often brings back memories of that time. By watching the dance tutorial videos shared by countless dance teachers on the internet today, I seem to have captured some of the reasons that caused my body to strongly resist and eventually led me to stop dancing.… >>>
It is often said that girls and boys, women and men have equal rights.
Women could become what they want if they only wanted to. If you take a closer look at figures, i.e. facts, you quickly realize that the people who are most affected by poverty are women, and especially mothers. We can no longer blame it on education, but on the desire to have children? So the woman still has to choose, while men can be both. Do gender ascriptions help anyone, are they perhaps the foundation of a binary misery?
A girl, who still has her life ahead of her, performs a newly learned clapping game in the daycare center and asks the question, how “becoming a woman” is supposed to work now?
The animation GAZE tells an everyday story about being stared at. Being stared at by other people in public is a bad experience for many people. The main character of the short film reacts to being stared at in a subway compartment with uneasiness and insecurity, although she knows that not every look has to be meant negatively. Nevertheless, out of fear, she falls deep into her own imaginary world....… >>>
In this playful performance-like experimental film, the artist Franziska Funke repeatedly arranges paper scraps in different ways and documents these humorous experiments from a bird’s eye view. The work is reminiscent of artists such as Urs Wehrli and “The Art of Tidying Up”. As a viewer, one is in for a ride; time and again, expectations of one’s own sense of order are not met or exceeded.… >>>
In his experimental short film, Timothy Hammer conducts a surface study. Through photogrammetry, new textures and surprising digital collages emerge. Objects become people, become landscapes.… >>>
The hypnotic choreography of a cosmetic facial treatment is superimposed on luminous cruise ship environments. In chorus, feminine-sounding voices read fictional instructions for permeability, until the (own) body dissolves. A counter-proposal to a tourism so firmly anchored in colonialistic and militaristic structures.… >>>
In our family, the women are always responsible for cooking rice. The women are always near the kitchen thinking about what food to cook. But in this video, the women are people who do performances with rice or in connection with rice.… >>>
Ambiguity tolerance refers to the degree of ability to deal with the permanent contradictoriness of imagination and experience. Private Moment accompanies a film collective in search of this tolerance for uncertainty in the idyllic allotment garden. The allotment garden becomes a stage on which questions about subjectivation and cohabitation are posed and the confrontation with them is tested: An experiment in which all participants get in each other's way. An anti-didactic narrative that generates affection and aversion at the same time.
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