Eating, waiting, haircutting, cleaning, telephone- and bedtime. The perennial daily routine of a juvenile detention center brings about a clotting of time. Bodies are transformed into vehicles, lethargically moved from workshops to single-person cells, down hallways into outdoor areas, from armchair to couch. Nothing makes a difference. Breathing, walking, sitting, lying down again. Existence in a comatose state. The film observes this heterotopic cosmos, picturing a perpetual dissolution. It tells a story of bodies left behind, of an undefined longing. A longing for something different. For an outside so yonder that even the dreamers do not know any longer, if it has even ever existed as such.… >>>
Nominated:
Goldener Key
- Director: Steffen Goldkamp
Paul Litherland re-enacts a video recording of himself (circa 1996) in which he recounts jumping off a building (with a parachute) in downtown Montreal. In this remake, Paul not only retells his story word for word, he also attempts to mimic all of his original pauses, hesitations and gestures. With 20 years in-between both recordings, Paul’s imperfect attempts to copy his younger self expose the performative aspects of memory.… >>>
- Director: Monique Moumblow,Paul Litherland
Gently, a sloth climbs up a tree and slowly gets comfortable in a relaxed hanging position. With its strong claws hooked into the bark, it rests, surrounded by its lively Costa Rican jungle habitat, seemingly content. The humble beauty of this spectacle of nature, captured on black-and-white film and carefully edited, would be the essence of the film – were it not for some unexpected inserts of psychedelic 60’s pop inspired sequences. It wouldn’t be far-fetched to read Ben Rivers‘ study of sloth time as a humorous comment on the excesses of durational art. However, it might be worth to try and take the experiment seriously as it lasts, lay back, experience the being and time of the sloth and let it work its magic. now, at last!… >>>
