This program takes the name of a printed zine by the Canaries, an artistic community of chronically sick women and gender non-conforming people based in NYC, in which they shared ways of dealing with flares and taking care of themselves beyond the medical-industrial system. Echoing this action of mutual support, the films in the program explore collective and individual forms of bodily and mental care in different therapeutical settings. Some proposals for challenging a world that privileges abled-bodied ways of living and working. (Maria Morata)
“I have no words to say” is the phrase one can often hear when the reality of the war is so striking that language seems to be incapable to describe it. While studying in Brussels, Daryna Mamaisur is caught up in the russian full-scale invasion of her country. In the springtime, when chestnut trees are blooming at the same time in Brussels and Kyiv, she makes a film capturing that spring in the distance. Keeping a visual correspondence with a friend from Kyiv, she faces the question: while making a film about war, how to speak about the wound that is fresh and ongoing?… >>>
Nominated:
Goldener Key
- Director: Daryna Mamaisur
FLARE has been a process of making sense of my experience of chronic illness. I felt urged to create a narrative not based on the interpretation of my condition by the medical institution, or by someone else not living it, but as told by myself. Due to the limitations of my health condition, I had to adapt the process of filming to whatever was possible and at reach. With this film, I wish to give a voice to the experience of chronic illness, to the power that comes from being slow, to rhythms and the secrets of the sick, resisting victim narratives. FLARE is a film made in alignment with the tides of my illness and capacities, and is testament to the healing strength of joy, community, and creativity. (Kate Blamire)… >>>
Nominated:
A38-Production Grant Kassel-Halle
The film stages in a beautifully restrained way a routine day in the training of medical professionals that unfolds into a meditation on transference, empathy, and performance. (Ben Estham)… >>>
Shortly after the artist Dan Robert Lahiani arrived at the 12th floor of the Clal Building in Jerusalem for an osteopathic session, his personal quest for connection, home and healing became entangled with the dilapidated and crumbling building’s angsts, aches, and neglect. In this new video work, he draws lines between the series of treatments he experienced and the building’s need for care and healing. Through poetic filming interventions, Lahiani looks at the building with aversion and compassion and holds a ritual of healing of the building, of the city, and of man’s brittle facets.… >>>
- Director: Dan Robert Lahiani
