| DIRECTOR/S | GENRE | DURATION | COUNTRY | YEAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Various |
Shorts Showcase, Experimental Shorts |
103min |
Various |
2023-2024 |
WARNING: This film contains flashing images that may cause discomfort or trigger seizures for people with photosensitive epilepsy and other condition with sensitivity to light.
Being In This World
A selection of experimental films focusing on the nature and poetry of place, from the historical to the cryptozoological, via the psychogeographical, the poetic and to cinema’s imagination of space.
A World in the Evening
Dan Boord and Luis Valdovino
USA/2023/9min
Visual and literal poetry that cannot be reconciled with the brutality of history, with the death of a poet and the sleep of reason.
Bigfoot
Simon Laperrière
Canada/2023/11min
An undeniably eerie presence can be felt within the woods, one that has been lurking from civilization since the dawn of time.
Garden State
Julie Langsam
USA/2023/12min
Explores the diverse landscapes in which wildlife, development, farming, and industry coexist in the most densely packed state in the USA.
Red River Nonsites
John Winn
USA/2023/10min
Pieces of information on the assembly and disassembly of Red River (1948) played and fast-forwarded against a background of fall leaves.
Being In These Bodies
A selection of experimental films focusing on the corporal: a swallowed camera, a hearing aid, an experiment in movement and noir cinema.
The Act of Not Seeing With One’s Own Eyes
Markus Maicher
Austria/2023/8min
Not handmade but auto-poetic, not analog but the newest digital technology, not silent but with sounds produced by the body of a musician, not square but very wide, no subject here, no inner visions, just my inner self.
Threshold
Sofya Gollan
Australia/2023/8min
A deeply personal exploration of what it means to have a little machine as part of your body, a portrayal of the Deaf experience rarely seen.
Come Shine
Slawomir Milewski
UK/2023/20min
Delving into the shadowy depths of cinema’s underbelly, echoing the atmospheric nuances of classic film-noir and creating a compelling narrative that is both unsettling and intriguing.
Being in Imagined Space (Interior and Exterior)
Psychological deteriorations build through invisible labour and images collapse, a tree muses on their role – adapted from a story by Urskla Le Guin, finally ending with an experiment in geological thinking, from the Big Bang onwards, through data visualised images.
I’m Sorry I’m Late
Sharon Mooney, USA, 2023, 7min
Psychological deteriorations caused by invisible labour and stress slowly build.
Direction of the Road
Janelle Vanderkelen
USA/2023/8min
Uses overlapping cyan and scarlet of anaglyph stereoscopic 3D imaging to speculate how a tree might perceive the world visually.
Deep Time of Latent Space
Eric Souther
USA/2024/10min
Places AI into the realm of geological thinking that spirals into deep time and broadcasts into the future.
