Dramatic Nights
A selection of films from the dramatic nights collection dedicated to the Anima Mundis.
Official Film Selection
Becoming Air
Dir. by Alisi Telengut, Diego Galafassi , Canada Germany, Sweden
Runtime: 6 min
Take a deep breath. As you exhale, imagine that in about three years, anywhere you would go on the planet you will find molecules that were inside you in this moment.
Better So
Dir. by Jaakko Antero Ylitalo , Finland
Runtime: 15 min
Juho, an amnesiac, finds himself lost in the middle of the night. To find his way Juho follows his own memories trough a voice journal while simultaneously reliving the progression of his condition. As Juho gets closer to his destination, the past and the present begin to intertwine, revealing the true meaning of his journey.
Corrosion
Dir. by Preston Bowe , United States
Runtime: 20 min
Wallace, an obsessive college swimmer, navigates a swimming injury and romantic tensions with a teammate.
CYCLOPE
Dir. by Spiros Drosopoulos , Greece
Runtime: 9 min
Christina,a 20 year old girl resonating hith her brother's loss, ends up interacting with a replica of him through a futuristic VR mask.Apparently this will not fill the void inside her and will bring her into an inner conflict situation.
Fragments of Memory and Collective Trauma
Dir. by Elpiniki Voutsa Rentzepopoulou , Greece
Runtime: 4 min
How could the absurdity of war ever be conveyed through any organized form of art or discourse? Even rationalism—the pride of our civilization—has lost the battle against human greed.
Latera
Dir. by Dimitris Glyfos , Greece
Runtime: 13 min
A father, who killed his own child, deals with bereavement. The sea is their common place.
MIMOSA
Dir. by Ekati Koukoutsaki , Greece
Runtime: 7 min
A man embarks on a romantic date with a fembot. The fembot is programmed to satisfy all of his desires. He purse to attract her with his commanding behavior while the fembot respond with mimicry. However, it soon becomes evident that the Fembot is far more self-aware and deceptive than the man imagined.
Toiler's Dirge
Dir. by C. A. Huff, F. C. Zuke , United States
Runtime: 6 min
Toiler's Dirge is an experimental film that explores invisible labor and the death of connection. For this project, a variety of insects were collected over the course of one year and were filmed at ultra-high resolution with a probe lens. The work invites viewers to investigate the intricacies of bodies of tiny workers that often go unnoticed. The camera explores them with a fascination as if they are alien or supernatural beings. This experimental film also incorporates footage of an abandoned Intensive Care Unit in a building that previously served as a city hospital, connecting ideas of emergency medical care to the labor that livings things put into those they are connected to. The voices in the film perform journal entries written by each artist. These voices are manipulated through formant altering and pitch-shifting in order to obscure the identity of each voice. Many other sounds used in this film are based on field recordings conducted in the abandoned hospital, including sounds of plumbing, room noise, and HVAC systems.
Voyeur
Dir. by Maryam Hashempour , Iran, Islamic Republic of
Runtime: 6 min
A girl enters a coffee shop while waiting for her friend. An unknown number sends her a photo of her, taken just before she enters the coffee shop. The unknown person sends the photo several times until...
Where fire is tamed
Dir. by Max Brismontier , Belgium
Runtime: 15 min
La Où S’apprivoise Le Feu (Where fire is Tamed), 2024, is a 14 mins 19 short film revisiting the fairytale format. It depicts the ill fated love story of a banished witch and an anarchist knight. It explores themes such as toxic love, revenge, catharsis and carnival.
ZEROZEROZEROZERO
Dir. by Tempest Creation
Runtime: 5 min
ZEROZEROZEROZERO is a zero-budget animated film that explores the psychological and somatic experience of "walking while trans", in reference to the stop and frisk law that was repealed from New York City's legislature in 2021.