THE VALLEY uses a small village on the West-Coast of Norway as a prism to look at global transitions related to production and economy: In the old textile factory, a server park mining for bitcoin, has replaced the traditional industry. What remains visible, when production moves to the realm of virtuality, which sounds, and physical surfaces can still be experienced? A film about the haptics of capitalism.… >>>
Convenience, not choice. Efficiency, not freedom. Frictionless experience: a data musical against automated propaganda. Shot with the participation of leading Senegalese musicians, poets and graffiti artists, ALGO-RHYTHM probes the insidious but comprehensive threats to human rights and agency posed by the rise of the quantification and algorithmic management of daily life. Situating her performers in a pixelized, exploded, virtual ghost image of Dakar, Manu Luksch creates a haunting and disruptive image of a world about to be replaced by a digital double.… >>>
For hundreds of years, the economy of the coastal regions of the Persian Gulf was based on pearl fishing. After the discovery of oil in the twentieth century, a massive transformation took place in the affected societies and this part of history was erased, relegated to popular fiction. DIVER proposes to bridge that gap through the formal abstraction of color; it follows the movements of synchronized swimmers wearing dichroic body suits akin to the sheen of both pearls and oil, fully choreographed to a traditional pearl-diving song.… >>>
“When you stare at a screen for long, the screen stares back at you.” It starts with a ripple on the pixel ocean and ends deep inside the guts of the screen: A color rush, a trip, between horror and absolute bliss, between overload and weightlessness. PATTERN COGNITION uses the entirety of abstract and experimental film’s bag of tricks to smother the cinema space, swallow its viewers and push through the membrane of the screen. Sublime abstraction, overwhelming, terrifying and beautiful at the same time.… >>>
The Azores Archipelago is a unique place in the Atlantic Ocean, situated on the Triple Junction between three tectonic plates. This creates a geological mythical land, where history can be explored both scientifically but also imagined from a fictional standpoint. Volcanoes emerge from the depths of the boiling earth to destroy and create the stories written on the surface, making way for an abstract language eruption. A 16-mm film whose surface pulsates like the volcanic earth of the island it depicts.… >>>