Original Film Title: Haiku
Directors Name: Martin Gerigk
Writers Name: Martin Gerigk
Producer: Martin Gerigk
Country of Origin: Germany
Country of Filming: Japan
Language: Japanese
Runtime: 17 min 17 sec
Film Description:
“Haiku | 俳句” is a symphonic audiovisual project for two Japanese performers, alternating percussion groups, soundscapes and rhythmicized video sequences. The film is an experimental approach to pay tribute to the extraordinary art of Japanese haiku poetry.
Original Film Title: Making Men
Directors Name: Antoine Panier
Writers Name: Antoine Panier, Harold George
Producer: Dunia Dance Theatre
Country of Origin: Belgium
Country of Filming: Zimbabwe
Language: English
Runtime: 10 min
Film Description:
Making Men examines the question of masculinity. This dance film zooms in on 4 individuals in the process of becoming men. As is expected, they proceed unquestioningly into manhood through various stages of their lives, adopting the clearly coded characteristics allowed by society.
However, a feeling of unease, in the very depths of their being, oppresses them. They feel uncertainty but also something else, harder to define…
Shot in the breathtaking landscape of Zimbabwe, the film features strong and rhythmical choreography but also a special camera work that intensifies emotions inspired by the movement.
English Film Title: Le plan
Original Film Title: The Plan
Directors Name: Mario Brem
Writers Name: Mario Brem, Franck Petit
Producer: Mario Brem
Country of Origin: France
Country of Filming: France
Language: French
Runtime: 13 min 37 sec
Film Description:
Driven by naive curiosity, F is wandering through a world, that seems torn apart between concrete and nature. With the structured view of a researcher and the anarchic gesture of the improvising artist at the same time, he’s approaching to the traces and fragments of human civilization. Always on his side is the pink zombie-like female puppet R, that F tries to comfort and care for. A silent witness to his lonely search. Their relation becomes a disturbing portrait, a poetic voyage to praise the revealing beauty of the absurd moment.
Original Film Title: On My Mind
Directors Name: Petra Richterova, Jennifer Galvin
Writers Name: Petra Richterova, Jennifer Galvin
Producer: Petra Richterova, Jennifer Galvin
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Filming: United States
Language: English
Runtime: 7 min 8 sec
Film Description:
With the questions of life on his mind, a saxophonist reunites on Bronx streets with his musician friends seeking solidarity while an ethereal being dances among them, taunting notions of love and summoning ancient wisdom. ON MY MIND is an abstract, Afro-cosmic film, aesthetically and symbolically grounded in African culture and New York history. Based on vanguard saxophonist and Blue Note recording artist Marcus Strickland’s latest track “On My Mind remix,” urbanscapes and spiritual objects bring artists into a rare, contemporary dialogue, reflecting the song’s timeless contemplation and resounding with mystical reverberation. Featuring Marcus Strickland, Bilal, Pharoahe Monch, Greg Tate, Ben Williams, EJ Strickland and Storyboard P.
Original Film Title: SACRUM
Directors Name: Rolf Lindblom
Writers Name: Rolf Lindblom
Producer: Rolf Lindblom
Country of Origin: Finland
Country of Filming: Finland
Language: No
Runtime: 5 min 25 sec
Film Description:
In the early days of fighting the aliens, there where no means to escape the effective field of the black hole bullets. Volunteer soldiers with nothing to loose and help from alien artifacts and guide dogs accomplished these off world missions…
Original Film Title: Things I Have Seen in My Dreams
Directors Name: Joao Pedro Oliveira
Writers Name: Joao Pedro Oliveira
Producer: Joao Pedro Oliveira
Country of Origin: Portugal
Country of Filming: Portugal
Language: no
Runtime: 10 min 30 sec
Film Description:
We dream… sometimes we have nightmares, or dreams that makes us sad, anguished, or simply indifferent. But occasionally, there are dreams that project in our mind images and sounds of great beauty. This piece is a recollection and variations on some of these images and sounds I remember from my dreams. It is dedicated to Mario Mary.
Original Film Title: FOREST DRIVE
Directors Name: Uma Martinez
Writers Name: Uma Martinez
DOP: Uma Martinez
Producer: Uma Martinez, Newton Stanford
Country of Origin: South Africa
Country of Filming: South Africa
Language: English
Runtime: 19 min 53 sec
Film Description:
Amy Finehouse, a suicidal 3rd year arts student, is recovering from a car accident and is guilt-ridden by the fact that she survived whilst two of her friends are dead and a third is in a coma. Through the companionship of her deceased junkie sister (Julia), Amy raises the courage to revisit the crash site in an attempt to recreate the event. Amy purposefully refrains from taking her anti-psychotic medication to face reality more clearly. Julia’s presence lightens the mood of the journey through her mischievous antics and also challenges society’s guardian angel stereotype. Through a series of escalating hallucinations Amy manages to tap into her psyche and come to terms with the root cause of her condition. She escapes death yet again. However, this time she emerges with a different perspective on life and a will to transform. The film explores the torments and chaos of an emotionally unstable individual through surrealistic manifestations. It softens the reality of death by highlighting the insignificance of our individual lives in the wider canvas of life. It also recognises that healing can only come from within and by facing one’s internal demons.
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