Video Graffiti
Official Film Selection
ARENA
Dir. by Khalil Charif , Brazil
Runtime: 4 min
In a world where freedom is constantly under threat, democratic societies are always on the lookout to ensure that the hard-won conquests of the historically recent past are not rolled back, but rather evolve towards individual and collective freedoms of expression and coexistence.
Control
Dir. by Nicolas Fais
This work is a video performance that is based on a text that i sing, in which i show different spontaneous dances that i realized trying to express physically the emotions that passed through me while writing and thinking about this text.
Oikos
Dir. by Efi Laskari
Reveal the Truth
Dir. by Pamela Falkenberg, Jack Cochran , United States
Runtime: 3 min
Experimental found poem created from graffiti discovered on the streets of Austin, TX.
Shades of Earth
Dir. by Montana Catherine, Dorte van Duijn , United States/Canada
Runtime: 3 min
Shades of Earth is an experiment with letting nature overcome mind. While in a residency in Nova Scotia, I had to relearn the land, reestablish my surroundings and overcome challenges I had never faced before. Being alone for two weeks, I listened to the land in a new way that I was not familiar with in Maine, leading me to work with the land in another way. I came across some red cliffs where things felt right, where mind and landscape came together. Shades of Earth is about speaking with, and combining myself with the earth. I became one with the beeswax and salt, working together in a combination that felt safe and mutual. The video is a ritual piece that plays and shares communion with the land around me.
SHUFFLE AGAIN
Dir. by Marie Chiriac , United Kingdom
Runtime: 5 min
My poems and short films follow the stream of consciousness. This one is about places and music - which both evoke memories and sometimes perhaps we are trying to forget. Also, being on the spectrum means perception is often distorted and feelings augmented and the undesired effect is quite fitting here.
St. Agatha's Garden
Dir. by Zelikha Shoja , United States
Runtime: 3 min
A grave watcher's meditations on caring for the living and the dead.
Wild Hive
Dir. by Robin Lancaster Bisio , United States
Runtime: 3 min
In a paean to an imperiled pollinator, Wild Hive honors the wild bee as it faces decline from the ravages of climate change, pesticides, changing land use policies and competition from managed hives. Dropped into a darkened vortex, an intricate geometry emerges as the dancer unspools against extravagant patterning. Watch the invisible become visible when Arianna Hartanov enters a mysterious world of nectar and cultivation.
Women of Water
Dir. by Editta Braun , Austria
Runtime: 10 min
A play about showing and concealing, moving and being moved. A ballet for isolated limbs, a trio for dancers flowing, floating, swimming and gliding. Carried by Thierry Zaboitzeff's marvellous sounds and tones, breathtaking through unprecedented perspectives, the piece writes a new, purely female story of creation out of the water.