04.09 | 20:00
The title of this block speaks for itself. Memory, which is a popular theme in art, is represented here from personal and subjective perspectives. It is revealed in diverse stories: an obsessive desire to engrave memories of the family home, a moment of silent tenderness of lovers, joys of a daily walk. Some films of this programme take personal memories to another level when it comes to important events and phenomena documented in official history, myths or mass culture. With this animation selection, we ask the question: how do memory mechanisms work? What is worth remembering and what should be forgotten?
Curated by Yulia Kuznietsova
Running time 80 min.
France | 14:59 | 2021
A desktop film about grief, created almost entirely inside an interface of a Blender computer graphics software. The intention of this film was to convey the feeling of loss with the obsessive thoroughness in modeling all of the details of a place that is no longer possible to return to.
Singapore | 01:56 | 2020
Hazy, faded and overlapping memories from the evening after I played my last secondary school softball game.
France | 15:51 | 2020
Survivor but amnesiac of the attack at Maalbeek metro station on 22 March 2016 in Brussels, Sabine is looking for the missing image of an over-mediatised event of which she has no memory.
Spain | 01:35 | 2020
For a time it has been a crime to walk. The recreation of the walk accompanies me in the moment before I fall asleep. One day I remembered Robert Breer, the experimental filmmaker and his piece "A man and his dog out for air", from the year 57 and I wanted to play like him.
Canada | 07:20 | 2020
Lèvres bleues is interested in using synthetic image to reconstruct the memory of a loving moment.
Croatia | 06:00 | 2020
Filmed on 16mm film, this visual expression is rooted in archival materials, drawing its inspiration from a poem by Hans Magnus Enzensberger. These two Archives were found at a flea market in Zagreb. One is of a famous architect and the other of a famous composer. The film ponders on this occurrence, as well as on the vanishing and forgetfulness of humans.
Czech Republic | 05:44 | 2019
This advertisement is advertising the electromagnetic radiation in wavelenghts of around 0.1 to 15 kHz, which is naturally occuring in the atmosphere. With the help of Stephen P. McGreevy's huge recordings archive and using ordinary drywall and simple space illusion we can see this non-traditional field of human interest and one fascinating natural phenomena, fascinating world of hidden sounds.
Ukraine, Norway | 08:32 | 2021
“Postcard From a Nonexisting City” is a video work that explores the Soviet imaginary and its relation to the future. The work features a virtual rendering of an architectural landscape that contrasts physical and temporal scales and stamps function as graphic messengers of a political and cultural transition. Constructed between the frameworks of speculative architecture, philately and the politics of time, “Postcard From a Nonexisting City” is a work that reflects on temporal arrangements and geopolitical effects produced by space communication technologies.
USA | 03:43 | 2020
A rumination on the passive politics of whiteness. My character's own flippant attitude towards the mention of racial injustice is both a nod towards the ignorance of white youth and the begging of the question - if I had known, would I have cared beyond a shallow verbal support of the oppressed? A hard day at the pool and the call to dinner being my siren song - an invitation to wash my hands literally and figuratively - guilty thoughts running down the drain, making room for a never ending beach party summer.
Myanmar | 15:00 | 2020
A son looks after his dying father. Trapped together in the family home, old conflicts resurface while death approaches.