untitled (a refusal of leave to land) is an essayistic short film on a prisoner of war camp from the Second World War, the arms industry in the Ruhr area and the relation between individual and collective memory. Starting out with a childhood memory of finding a fossil in a bed of rocks of a former railroad track, the narration follows the connections between the former POW camp Stalag VI F in Bocholt and the Krupp company in Essen.… >>>
Nominated:
Goldener Key
Trees are the silent characters, narrating the architecture and life of Churchill College (opened in 1960) through its natural history. 6a’s Cowan Court (completed in 2016) inverted the spatial and material order of the picturesque Brutalism of the original college, shifting its mineral world of brick and shuttered concrete to timber. Cowan Court’s oak, both new and old, defines its structure and in turn encloses a central court filled with recently planted birch trees. The analogue materiality of Churchill College is matched by the film which, like the architecture and landscape, leaves traces of its own development. The human habitat is seen through nature – swaying trees, lost animals, birds of prey, the seasons – to create a new dreamlike environment in which any distinction between human life, architecture and nature is erased.… >>>
Deep in the heart of the Amazon, Tauary inhabitants invite us to listen to the sounds of the jungle, the birds and animals. However, some weird sounds appear: a creature prowling around the trees. Some of them have heard it, very few have ever seen it, and those who did find it never came back. It charms, it enchants — it leads people to get lost: each one of them tells a story in their own way and tries to decipher its sounds. CURUPIRA, BICHO DO MATO takes us in search of this being: a reflection about myths and their place in the contemporary world. It’s a sound thriller in the midst of the jungle.… >>>
Nominated:
Goldener Key