The videoart program of the 8th Short Movie Club Film Festival “NEFILTRAVANAE KINO”.
A revived Guernica and Dachau gas slowly fill the cinema hall of the frozen in horror audience as cold marsh water among the ruins fills the mass graves of our memory. Fire needs only three components: fuel, a heat source and oxygen. Sometimes the war in TickTock hard to distinguish from the war in the simulation games: Jesus playing contrabass on top of a racing car, digital humanity in a St. Vitus dance, stop-motion and virtuality crumbling on the screen, reality being the only one.
The total length of the films is 55 minutes.
MARCH, 26
DIGITAL LOVE (REMIX)
Raphaël Languillat (Germany, 5 min)
‘digital love (remix)’ is the result of an online collaboration with the collective Lovemusic from Strasbourg (France): a neonwave audiovisual poem about love, desire and death bringing together an experimental remix of Daft Punk’s Digital Love with fragments of William Shakespeare’s erotic poem Venus and Adonis.
HUMAN WALKERS IN MOTION
Ethann Néon (Belgium, 10 min)
The walk inhabits our being and governs our social space. Side by side or face to face, it implies an exchange. When combining everyone’s specific pace, a hidden harmony arises. Reconnecting with Eadweard Muybridge‘s work, this film projects us into the frenetic rhythm of the steps of fifty walkers.
GO AHEAD AND LOOK
Saeid Dorrani (Iran, 14 min)
In spite of resistance from Brandon, Rupert wants to look inside the chest. He doesn’t know exactly what’s waiting for him in there.
EL TRIANGULO DEL FUEGO
Carlos León-Cantón (Guatemala, 8 min)
An audiovisual collage that aims to portray the political role of fire in society.
PILLS IN WATER
Martin Baumann (Switzerland, 3 min)
Going to the doctor and taking medication are often painful necessities, which for many people are shackled with negative feelings. However, this macro short film shows pharmaceutical drugs from their most beautiful side: The pills dissolve in water in a sensuous way that makes for fascinating viewing, leaving behind a fireworks display of positive emotions and strong colors.
THE BODY IS A GESTURE
Guli Silberstein (UK, 6 min)
An AI computer-vision system reconstructs footage of humanity in different contexts – business, love, city, joy, protest. The next-frame-prediction technology is trying to predict the future based on just a couple of seconds from each clip, producing surprisingly hallucinatory video outputs, engaging with surrealist and expressionist painting tradition. The AI-produced material is arranged by the human artist in a narrative reflecting on the tenderness of the human body, the implications of AI interacting with it, and the politics of its usage.
We are a viral breath, one embodiment, connected to each other physically, socially and psychologically. Now it’s becoming mediated by machines, controlled by corporations and governments. The work explores senses of touch and body as seen by algorithmic processes.
BASS RALLY
Bartosz Sikorski (Poland, 7 min)
An extraordinary rally through the night land with double-bass sounds out of this planet.
Partly, the found footage film, which composes sequences from the Internet and games into a film, could arise from a play of our subconscious.
THE NEW WORLD: VARIATIONS ON STAY-HOME ACTIVITIES
Hong Ning, Zhao Xiaofeng (China, 2 min)
In 2020, most residents on the planet were forced to live indoors for days and months due to the epidemic, which has influenced our usual work and life to some extent. In this isolation, people tend to create ways of self-entertainment and take limited exercise at home. As a result, a large amount of ordinary people emerged on the Internet and started to show the interesting bits of living indoors in their own way. They straddled the differences in time and space, and built vast webs of data in live form, in which they connected and influenced each other.
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