A cinematic time travel – past and present blend into a more or less connected sequence. We realize to what extent the past determines our present and we witness how painful it can be to face one’s own history. We recognize the processes of exploitative and discriminating structures that are still at work today. Seeing more clearly in retrospective, we ponder about past events and wonder how we would have reacted if faced with certain situations. (Sarah Adam)
This is a documentary film about the events that are currently taking place in Ukraine. Unique video recordings, real excerpts of students of the Kyiv City Academy of Pop and Circular Art, located in Kyiv on February 15, 2022, where they interact with their thoughts on the upcoming war.… >>>
For some the Dirndl is just a pretty, colorful dress with an apron, for others it is a lifelong confrontation. Just like garments locations are also contaminated and are subjected to different interpretations by family history. Each generation has its own way to read those narratives, that have put layer upon layer until no one can be sure what is underneath. The Super-8 film dives deep down into the history of the Grundlsee and opens up the view upon lower layers.… >>>
“An elephant's bone to stir food, a feather to catch winged termites at night, eight butterflies, a rope made from fragrant roots, 150 meters of exposed but not yet developed film destined for the Ministry of Colonies…” The list of loot taken to Belgium during a colonial expedition in the northeast of Congo between 1911 and 1913 is thousands of items long. Additional film footage from this expedition illustrates the underlying colonial system of oppression and exploitation. Sarah Vanagt creates a public but still intimate setting in which young people in Brussels, with many different backgrounds and horizons, examine and re-interpret these historic documents. In a playful and performative way, they reveal the condescending and discriminating colonial mindset.… >>>
This desktop documentary demonstrates the extent to which the cultural imaginary concerning the real world police is projected into the game space. Trying to resolve the question, why cops don’t fight each other in Grand Theft Auto V, the filmmaker engages the “modding scene” – a community of people and tools that enable modifications to the game world. Several unsuccessful attempts lead them to conduct an exhaustive forensic analysis of the games source code.… >>>
After ten years apart, a Scottish filmmaker tries to reconnect with her closest cousin, now living thousands of miles away. Once close friends, their paths were separated by war. Step by step the two women try to piece together the memories of Syria via online chat and screen sharing of old images and videos. While wondering who is who in this vintage clothing and strange setting, they begin to wonder - “What happened to our family?”… >>>