F**k Your Face Navajo Music Video – dir. Anne Welles

Original Film Title: F**k Your Face Navajo Music Video

Director’s Name: Anne Welles

Writer’s Name: Anne Welles, Kyle Felter

Producer: Anne Welles, Kyle Felter, Andrea Courtney, Gretel Truong, Mariana Lui

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 5 minutes

Film Description:

Simi travels through the desert, down the road of life, repeatedly meeting a masked man along the way, who insists they accept labels scribbled on pieces of wood from him, until near the end of life, when the character chooses to be free.

The Sunshine Summit O’er the Mountain of Dishes – dir. James Kirby

Original Film Title: The Sunshine Summit O’er the Mountain of Dishes

Director’s Name: James Kirby

Writer’s Name: James Kirby

Producer: James Kirby

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 5 minutes 45 seconds

Film Description:

Lazy daydreamer seeks to avoid mundane chores so that he can go swimming.

Salut – dir. Yuri Riklis

Original Film Title: Salut 

Director’s Name: Yuri Riklis

Writer’s Name: Yuri Riklis

Producer: Yuri Riklis

Country of Origin: Israel

Country of Filming: Israel

Runtime: 3 minutes

Film Description:

George Ginsburg (40s) is a new immigrant from France, a guitar player in a night club in Tel Aviv . His whole emotional world is – his girlfriend Michelle (late 20s) also immigrated from France and his dog Packo. When he receives a message about Michel’s death in a terrorist attack at the “Dolphinarium” Dicko, his life ends also.

Back to the Kings of Israel Square – dir. Yuri Riklis

Original Film Title: Back to the Kings of Israel Square

Director’s Name: Yuri Riklis

Writer’s Name: Yuri Riklis

Producer: Yuri Riklis

Country of Origin: Israel

Country of Filming: Israel

Runtime: 2 minutes

Film Description:

When the Angel of Death arrives 30 years later at the scene of the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, he witnesses a routine of life in the place – the Kings of Israel Square – where an event occurred that shocked the country and the entire world.

Barricade – dir. Blue Republic Passakas

Original Film Title: Barricade 

Director’s Name: Blue Republic Passakas

Writer’s Name: Blue Republic Passakas

Producer: Blue Republic Passakas

Country of Origin: Canada

Country of Filming: Canada

Runtime: 12 minutes 57 seconds

Film Description:

An artist paints a barricade with water and brush across a remote rocky beach at Georgian Bay, on Lake Huron in Northern Ontario. The ‘barricade’, menacing at first, is observed as it slowly changes and gradually disappears, its ephemeral presence subject to evaporation. The light changes and clouds drift through the sky, while waves rhythmically break on the rocky shore. These short-lived images and their natural evaporation registered on videos, are a continuation of Blue Republic’s earlier experiments of creating trans objects – objects that had been shredded, pulverized, evaporated and are thought to be destroyed. In case of Water Drawings, there are no objects as such, there is only the performative aspect of drawing with water on rock surface. The only trace is the object’s shadow in an ephemeral form of a fast-drying outline made with water and brush, and its video documentation.

We are among the handful of land art artists, whose activity leaves no traces: nothing is changed, removed or modified. Water Drawings work takes place in silence and solitude, away from the usual problems of urban life. The natural environment acting like a great mirror has a sobering effect, which allows our – and the viewers’ concerns to regain their sense of proportion.

Lady in Red – dir. Yao Yao, Rene Smaal

Original Film Title: Lady in Red

Director’s Name: Yao Yao, Rene Smaal

Writer’s Name: Yao Yao

Producer: Yao Yao, Rene Smaal

Country of Origin: Netherlands

Country of Filming: Netherlands

Language: English

Runtime: 8 minutes 40 seconds

Film Description:

Interview with an Amsterdam sex worker on the day before her retirement, looking back on decades of work in her profession