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- Exvotos, 16'
Exvotos
Production: Spain 2014Exvotos chases an intimate approximation to the popular devotion, reflecting on the paradox of the search of security through objects. Fluctuating between sacred and profane spaces as the museum, the church or the cemetery (sometimes generating confusion among them) the film-essay generates reflections on the image and its potential focusing on the votive offerings.
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- I'll call you when I get there, 20'
I'll call you when I get there
Production: Poland / Netherlands 2013 / 2014A young artist receives an invitation from a small Dutch gallery called Upominki. She travels to Rotterdam by train. She gets calls constantly: from her worried (soon to be terrified) mother, from her calm grandma, and from a professionally untrusting but cool-headed policeman. What can/could happen before the destination is reached, and beyond? A thorough analysis of the media's influence on our lives, produced with the help of some of these media.
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- Kingdom Come: Rituals, 7'
Kingdom Come: RitualsProduction: Germany 2014
The view we get is one of non-participation, an inaccessible anomaly to any form of definition which is the precise perspective the artists want to experiment with when looking at the space and surroundings of what signifies the German political centre, at political geography and urban landscapes of power. KINGDOM COME was initiated by the artists’ discovery of pigeon photography: a method used mainly during World War I in the field of what would nowadays be called ‘unmanned reconnaissance’.
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- Nóż w wozie, 11'
Nóż w wozie / Knife in the Wife
Production: Poland 2014If one were to seek film references, this wouldn't be an easy connotation with Polański's Knife in the Water, but with The Impossible Goodbye – the atmospheric, melancholy debut of Stanisław Jędryka from 1962. Both films tell the story of a provincial circus. The films are 52 years apart and belong to different genres (The Impossible Goodbye is a feature film), and the laundry is done differently as well (no buckets or jugs anymore, but an automatic laundry machine). However, in both the 50-year-old circus story as well as the contemporary one, the circus lady does the laundry outside. In the story by Vita Drygas we get to see the Arizona circus, where the husbands throw knives at their wives. And the audience, regardless of age, take in the experience: the funny, the scary, and the exciting.
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- PS Sao Paulo, 15'
PS São Paulo
Production: Belgium / Brazil 2013Two men are wandering about in the night in a big city. They are having a conversation, one that can only happen between two lost souls. We will not get to know their life stories or their faces. Maybe they are watchmen guarding rich neighbourhoods, maybe something else. We are driving around an alien town with at-hand equipment. A (police?) helicopter drowns out the conversation and the thoughts. São Paulo is the biggest agglomeration on the southern hemisphere. The city itself is inhabited by 11 million people, the whole agglomeration – by around 21 million.
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- To byłoby coś pięknego, 17'
To byłoby coś pięknego / That would be beautiful
Production: Poland 2014Humanity's problem with colonising Mars would have been resolved long ago if there had only been a way to return from this planet that is almost a year's travel away. It has been decided to at least send people on a one-way journey to Mars. The international program received over 200 thousand submissions from volunteers worldwide. Among them there is Mrs Aleksandra, a biology teacher from Sosnowiec, fulfilled in her family and professional life, fascinated by the possibility of establishing the new cradle of mankind. Like we said, there is no return from Mars, although the lady from the Social Insurance Institution associates the planet with some – distant nonetheless – Great Britain, Ireland, and maybe even Germany. And Mrs Aleksandra, aware of her mission's significance, gets her pension secured and gets accustomed to Marsian landscapes, strolling with her dog along the picturesque streets of Sosnowiec.
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- Velsignet vaere dette sted, 29'
Velsignet vaere dette sted / Blessed by this place
Production: Denmark 2013A multilayered film about seeking identity, and belonging to a place. At the same time it is a portrait of mankind, metaphysical and full of humour, focusing on the areas where we find the meaning of life, areas that make life understandable and meaningful. Weightlifting, work (even in a hilarious costume), a place to put flowers, space to smoke a cigarette and to gossip, a heavenly choir in the funeral chapel. Each of those actions and each of these places can be what they should be under the consistently changing sky.
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