Video Graffiti
Official Film Selection
A.I. made me do it: Ophelia
Dir. by Gioula Papadopoulou , Greece
Runtime: 3 min
The work "AI made me do it: Ophelia" (2023) is an experimental video, made entirely with images created using the AI system Dalle-2 (OpenAI), with variations of one single image. The initial image was created by Dalle-2 using a text prompt asking the program to generate an Ophelia in the water with flowers. The rest of the images are variations of this first image, as created by the AI generator following different paths of variations each time. The sound was created by AI platform Melobytes, turning that same first image of Ophelia to sound. The final result is based on the randomness and fluidity of the AI generators used, leading to a surreal animation where a classic theme character (Ophelia) meets with weird dreamlike mutations and unexpected futuristic scenes. Ophelia changes identities, gender, attributes and constantly moves away from her stereotypical image and fate, in a fantasy world where everything is possible.
A quiet thriller
Dir. by Alessandra La Bella , Germany
Runtime: 10 min
Why when we find our selfs in strange situations we choose not to follow our instincts? How much responsibility do we carry in the fulfillment of our destiny? There is a place where human will and destiny meet and collide, pulled like a tight thread it stretches over our perception and understanding of time. Human curiosity and the animalistic dance together in a slow dense rhythm where somehow naivety plays a silent but essential role.
Bones
Dir. by Anton Dushkin , Russian Federation
Runtime: 4 min
Animated film in stop motion technique. X-rays are the main means of expression in the film. The pictures show what is usually hidden from our eyes, at the same time, it is inside every person. The x-ray seems to allow us to answer the frightening The question is, am I healthy? We are not able to interpret it on our own and surrender to the will of the doctors, while we ourselves can see in them both an imminent death and a miraculous healing. The picture is both a question and an answer. Unusual material requires a special attitude towards itself, encourages experimenting, combining with other materials, colors, and applying dynamics that are not typical for animation.
Darker Than Black
Dir. by Hassan Mokhtari , Iran, Islamic Republic of
Runtime: 1 min
Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.
D.E.U.S.
Dir. by Irida Polychroni, Panayiotis Lamprou , Argentina
Runtime: 7 min
The DIS- video is a key component of my main diploma project, where I examine the concept of dissociation. The project is divided into three parts: "safety" focusing on the safe space one creates when faced with triggering events; "danger," which explores lingering threats within that safe space and "uncertainty," delving into the instability and confusion surrounding said notions of safety, danger, and ultimately self-identity.
DIGNITY S.O.S.
Runtime: 5 min
DIGNITY S.O.S. Project product of a research laboratory in creation and pedagogy for social development of artistic thought, personal dignity and the dignity of others, experimental video art, from the life experience of the author in the armed conflict and his visions of the sad reality of a country mired in corruption, the abandonment of artists, cultural managers and their families, devalued and ignored before their rights, the problems of dignity at work and economic stability to survive, invisible victims of the multiple reflections and consequences of violence and human rights in Colombia. carried out between 2008-2023 in Villavicencio, Meta.
DIS-
Dir. by Fotini Charatsi , Argentina
Runtime: 1 min
The DIS- video is a key component of my main diploma project, where I examine the concept of dissociation. The project is divided into three parts: "safety" focusing on the safe space one creates when faced with triggering events; "danger," which explores lingering threats within that safe space and "uncertainty," delving into the instability and confusion surrounding said notions of safety, danger, and ultimately self-identity.
Flux Surreal
Dir. by Ebba Jahn , Germany
Runtime: 9 min
Flux Surreal | HD 8 min., 2023 Proposed by the new Monk Film Festival in Italy, Ebba Jahn took the opportunity to choose one of the suggested music works to make a video with - it is "La scalata" by Nello Toscano who plays the cello here and mixed it with additional man-made sounds. Someone on the move through "lost places" came to her mind, so she worked with collages by Stefania Buzatu to create this flux of sur-real experience, with images of a surrealism that grew within its existence of 100 years now. Nello Toscano: In fact, the steps and breathing were recorded during a climb on the crater of Etna and the cello was recorded afterwards. The meaning of the (music) piece is twofold and therefore represents a real climb on the volcano but also the effort to reach a goal that escapes you and, philosophically, 'the existential effort of becoming'.
Lines of Touch
Dir. by Paula Marien , Germany
Runtime: 5 min
Two white lines move towards each other and when they meet, tentatively, fingers and arms that touch each other become visible. The lines become longer, more complex and emerge into figures, that explore the boundaries of physical touch. They hug, shake hands, stroke over a shoulder, multiply or overlay, while a soundscape arises that accompanies the body contact, but also brings its own ideas and goes into a relationship with the visual image.
Lost Aisles
Dir. by Aloni Yuli , Greece
Runtime: 3 min
The DIS- video is a key component of my main diploma project, where I examine the concept of dissociation. The project is divided into three parts: "safety" focusing on the safe space one creates when faced with triggering events; "danger," which explores lingering threats within that safe space and "uncertainty," delving into the instability and confusion surrounding said notions of safety, danger, and ultimately self-identity.
Merry-go-round on the street
Dir. by Jaeik Kim , Korea, Republic of
Runtime: 6 min
We live with daily disillusionment that is generated as our village life becomes more formalized and village streets turn into urban ones with repetitive patterns of lifestyle. To escape such disillusionment, an old and worn amusement park can be regarded as a temporary shelter of the mind, and this video work is to record short and long times of disillusionment, based on the merry-go-round shot for 24 hours straight. On a terrain clearly exposed as unpaved, there used to be flowers and trees everywhere, and people walked around freely. Over the past decades, unstructured land and informal neighborhoods have become dense with urban streets in a defenseless state, and the surface of land is filled with such tension and silence that we lose all sense of direction. While hovering around on the surface, we find ourselves going back to square one from time to time, like a merry-go-round. No matter if we are either walkers or performers while wandering about streets, we may have both senses of unfamiliarity and familiarity from our experience of various kinds of streets. Such a hybrid culture and community we face between cut-off streets come across mind like an organic whole, but they will keep tearing down and building up over and over. A particular moment felt as a milestone of time is merely a part of such process. It is because memories of senses divided in detail, not as a single identity, will be what we are able to feel at present only. Repetitive patterns of life we face along the circular road will be like light and shadow filled with tension and anxiety from the present point of view, and looking back on the space, we may find it similar to a merry-go-round on the circular street. Even at present, many of us still start walking or running along the Moebius strip-like road. All the conditions of this road are reflected on our breathtaking life on this land, and memories of time split on the space will start and end on the very circular land. *Method of Expression Both audio and video will be repeated infinitely in the frame through creation and extinction. At the same time, unknown shapes and lines exposed by time will be faced with tension and anxiety that can be felt on the circular land.
Motus
Dir. by Nelson Fernandes , Portugal
Runtime: 5 min
Motus: a body in motion. A stop-motion animation where conception, degradation and regeneration cohabit in a unique way. A creation on a metal sheet using ethanol as the raw material.
Night for a lost one
Dir. by Nenad Obrad Nedeljkov , Serbia
Runtime: 4 min
A video diptych, a part of the "Bounds" cycle. The audiovisual presentation follows the bird to its final and undefined outcome.
Phases - Malaspina
Dir. by Ebba Jahn , Germany
Runtime: 5 min
Art music video by Ebba Jahn | HD 5 min. 2023 We have created an art music video based on a proposed track by a film festival titled "Malaspina" by Raffaele Casarano, featuring Dhafer Youssef - oud, lyrics and voice. The visuals consist mainly of drawings by Dwayne Jahn, his 3rd art video. Tunesian jazz musician Dhafer Youssef's voice with Dwayne's recent Phases-Drawings are merging: "As a harmonious unison of heartfelt music, colorful drawings and serene film, PHASES touches upon themes of what we go through in life around the world when we introspect and let go. This video can be considered an abstracted representation of personal balance and the ongoing search for improvement". - Dwayne Jahn.
Radicalized
Dir. by Jeannette Schwager , Canada
Runtime: 4 min
Short impressionistic anti-war film to accompany the music of the Opera of the Unspoken, an ancestral experimental opera about WWII in Indonesia, then the Dutch East Indies. This song reflects the fate of my civilian German grandfather, unfairly interned by the Dutch, then killed by radicals in East Java as he tried to find his way back to his Javanese wife and mixed race children after the war had ended. The lyrics reflect the chaos, confusion and danger of the time, with details patched together using psychic dreamwork. Archival war footage and a few family photos are edited with special effects into a rhythmic, dream-like reflection of the central poem, reminiscent of gum bichromate photography. A creative work to address ancestral trauma in our family dna.
Sea of Problems
Runtime: 2 min
Sea of Stars
Dir. by Robin L. Bisio , United States
Runtime: 3 min
Moths are night pollinators, navigating by the stars and moon. In Sea of Stars, we honor this journey into darkened skies as Paige Amicon explores a secret world of cultivation.
self-portrait
Dir. by nacho recio , Spain
Runtime: 4 min
'Self Portrait' is presented as an awakening into the unknown, as an attempt to reach new emotional and sensory levels.
shadows of a radio in the east
Dir. by nacho recio , Spain
Runtime: 1 min
'Shadows of a Radio in the East', recorded with a mobile phone, is presented as an audiovisual experimentation in the context of a Berlin still overshadowed by a dense and uncertain past.
The Light of Reason
Dir. by Miguel Mariano , Portugal
Runtime: 7 min
A multidisciplinary proposal that merges dance, performance, sound and aesthetic architecture. A battle of egos in a plastic mobility in which the collective immaterial is, despite everything, the main driving force. Conducted by a mediation, which first analyses and only then intervenes, there is initially a celebration of the cult of the "I", and then this proposal falls under the human capacity, to reflect, share and accept that life is an intertwined commitment of a collective union for the growth of all in that same union.
The Mind's Egg
Dir. by Maria Korporal , Germany
Runtime: 3 min
The metaphore the mind's egg refers to some of the highly estimated potentialities of the human mind that we know as creativity, innovation, and originality. Just like an egg contains the genetic material and nutrients necessary for the growth of a new organism, the mind's egg contains the ideas and fundamentals, knowledge and experiences that may give birth to inventions, new insights or new art forms. I had these ideas in mind when I began working on this video. I started with a 3D animated egg and then continued with an animated chalk drawing on a blackboard. The drawn figures seem to come out of the egg, but at the same time they nest the egg in a protected environment. When the drawing is completed, the egg and the figures undergo a transformation. The result is a dynamic digital microcosmos. To add a commentary on this evolution I consulted an artificial intelligence nonetheless capable of expressing ideas and thoughts. I prompted ChatGPT of OpenAI to write a short poem about The Mind's Egg. After several unsuccessful attempts, it produced the following poem: Nest the mind Mind the nest Where thoughts take flight And dreams can rest. I thought the verses were appropriate to end the video with.
Thread Threat
Dir. by Konstantina Sofokleous , Cyprus
Runtime: 2 min
Wholly filmed on top of a doll silhouette, an interpretation of the 1810 Grimm handwritten manuscript of 'Snow White'*, concentrating on the cruelty of Snow White's biological mother. TECHNIQUE Thread used like coloured pencils to 'translate' my drawing lines with a new material. Special thanks to the Aardman Academy. *1810 #43. 'Schneeweisschen. Schneewittchen. Unlucky Child'
To find you
Dir. by Chantal Paula Rosengurt , Argentina
Runtime: 5 min
A woman undertakes the journey of her life on a barge alone at sea, in search of her love. There she will have to confront her deepest fears to the point that she will have to completely transform herself to get ahead between life, death and fantasy.
Trying to Remember
Dir. by Rani Deighe Crowe , United States
Runtime: 4 min
An experimental film created by layering and repeating 16 mm film footage created from Cyanotype, home office printing, and stamping and scratching and drawing on the film. Trying to remember the self through far away memory and unclear thoughts and during the extreme isolation of 2020.
Untitled
Dir. by Tassos Fytros, Manos Arvanitakis , Greece
Runtime: 3 min
The temple of Poseidon, one of the most renown treasures of Greek civilization, presented and filmed as never done before, illuminated by drone lights during a summer full moon night. No CGI not even VFX, illuminated from real drone lights, motivated from our Greek treasures, filmed from people with vision to share their different light perspective, filming such a special monument with this unique technique.
Wonders of the invisible. A world you have never seen before
Dir. by Iker Duro Linares , Spain
Runtime: 5 min
Right in front of us, invisible to the naked eye, there is a hidden world teeming with life. A world inhabited by beings whose shapes, colors and way of life surely will surprise those who see it for the first time. They are present in each and every corner of the planet. They are tiny, almost invisible. Immerse yourself into a world you have never seen before.