Category: Best Music Video ARFF Barcelona 2023

Original Film Title: GABETE

Director’s Name: Alejo Ayala

Producer: Terrier Producciones, Vegard Beyer, Sergio Pascual Santalla

Country of Origin: Spain

Country of Filming: Spain

Language: Spanish

Runtime: 4 minutes 50 seconds

Film Description:

Using Dante’s Divine Comedy imagery as a reference point, GABETE invites us to experience queer artist Hugo Myya’s journey into his subconscious. To attain freedom and break away from the chains of the collective subconscious, Hugo has to face down the mysterious being responsible for his deepest fears and demons – the Catholic ur-demon of repression.

Original Film Title: Shame

Director’s Name: Pete List

Writer’s Name: Pete List

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: Italy

Language: English

Runtime: 3 minutes 13 seconds

Film Description:

Pete List’s animated video for SeepeopleS ‘Shame’ confronts the prevalence of gun violence in schools in the US, exploring the emotional consequences of bullying, the longing for security and comfort, and the death of childhood innocence.

Original Film Title: KORIN F – Avec amour

Director’s Name: Cédric Legrand

Writer’s Name: Cédric Legrand, Max Grayt

Producer: Jordi Heppell Torrens

Country of Origin: France

Runtime: 3 minutes 30 seconds

Film Description:

In the halls of a university, a telepathic television makes people disappear mysteriously. Like a mermaid, it uses the fantasies of its prey to attract and absorb them into the screen. Breathing her last, the television releases a wave of love that no one can resist.
The video, points the irresistible attraction we have for the screens. In this love story, fantasies are revealed in a virtual world, they are fulfilled without restraint, without fear of being judged by the other.
But who do we ultimately want? The machine or the person behind it?

Original Film Title: Argent Glass (feat. Char)

Director’s Name: Katsuyuki Nakanishi

Producer: Katsuyuki Nakanishi

Country of Origin: Japan

Country of Filming: Japan

Language: Japanese

Runtime: 4 minutes 2 seconds

Film Description:

In November 1967, in Honmoku, Yokohama, a guy (Shinsuke Kato) is chasing his dream of becoming famous while performing live, but it is not coming true. One day, he breaks his cherished silver glass, and after gathering up the fragments, he drove off somewhere.