Category: Best Experimental Film ARFF Amsterdam 2022

Original Film Title: Metamorphosis

Director’s Name: Laura Caccia, Laura Gutierrez

Writer’s Name: Laura Caccia

Producer: Laura Caccia

Country of Origin: Spain

Country of Filming: Spain

Runtime: 4 minutes 18 seconds

Film Description:

Metamorphosis is the transformation of the body, of the external envelope of each of us. With each change and modification, habits change and this inevitably affects the ego, the personality of the individual. Water is life, it is rebirth after transformation, it is becoming aware of the new ego.nightmare returns.

Original Film Title: 蓝色妄想

Director’s Name: Fang Guan

Writer’s Name: Fang Guan, Yue Jia Yu

Producer: Alex Gust

Country of Origin: China

Country of Filming: China

Runtime: 14 minutes 57 seconds

Film Description:

Novalis’s unfinished novel Heinrich Vonnegut Von Ofterdingen expresses the longing for a meaning in life, which arises from the experience of mysterious meaning and is capable of overcoming death. The longing is seen as blue because it is associated with remoteness, just like loyalty. The color of blue is mysterious, romantic, and it is presented by the illusionary and lost Neptune, as depicted in Plato’s ideal state that symbolizes the unattainable ideal.

Original Film Title: Sticks and Stones

Director’s Name: Cynthia N White, Alexander S White

Writer’s Name: Tara Caimi, William Doan

Producer: Cynthia N White

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 3 minutes 55 seconds

Film Description:

A man sorts through the debris of his childhood, seeking help to untangle the differences between his own anxiety and depression, and the impact of toxic masculinity.eturns.

Original Film Title: FAGGOTS

Director’s Name: Dominik Wojciech Krawiecki, Patrycja Planik

Writer’s Name: Pawel Bednarek

Producer: Slawek Bendrat

Country of Origin: Switzerland

Country of Filming: Switzerland

Language: German, Polish

Runtime: 1 hour 12 minutes

Film Description:

The mysterious virus ‘Exit 884’ has decimated the human population and, for reasons unknown to science, has spared the lives of homosexual men only. Earth’s last surviving woman, Maria Magdalena Wysocka, commonly known as Pink Mama, activist of the Rainbow Over Nations movement and acclaimed LGBT warrior, has passed away. Her death marks the beginning of a new era: The Era of Faggots. The farewell party at the former gay club ‘Malibu’, is orchestrated by Erna, who used to clean Her Ladyship Pink Mama’s house. From dusk till dawn, Pink Mama’s friends celebrate and honor her life at a table laid out with vodka, herring, pickles, and russian salad. However, there is a deadly secret hidden behind all the mourning, a secret, that they would rather forget. The nightmare returns.