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Despite the difficulties we face everyday, filmmakers keep doing what they love and we're so proud to show you what they've done. You will not find another festival in which so much love is invested in a film, whether from the filmmaker–as well in many cases–the artist being portrayed. Come, enjoy, and be amazed.
2022
Over 100 films!
SPECIAL THANKS
CHRISTY ADDIS-GUTIERREZ Festival Program Director, FAFF/Fine Arts Film Festival Every year we get more films from more countries, of higher and higher quality. It’s really exciting to see new perspectives that are fresh and different. Each film is like entering a new little world to explore. Being able to offer distribution deals to our Official Selection filmmakers helps us continue to attract the very best films from around the world. Photo @rosecefalu
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FAFF Partner and screening venue Beyond Baroque FAFF Partner and Vimeo tech support Jim Quan/Big Pieces Company For Invaders from Mars (1953) Jan Willem Bosman Jansen/Ignite Films Our hard-working interns Kaitlyn Carril Anwar Mohammad Trailer editor Waseem Marzouki Poster illustration/design Anwar Mohammad Catalog design/social media graphics True Design And to all our staff, volunteers, judges, and filmmakers–you’ve helped make a great FAFF 2022! SPONSORED BY
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UKRAINE CRISIS FUNDRAISER
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Statements from FAFF
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Special thanks
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Donations for CHOOSE LOVE’s Ukrainian Crisis Fundraiser
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IN-PERSON SCREENING Info and schedule
FINE ARTS FILM FESTIVAL is honored to select the CHOOSE LOVE organization this year to donate a portion of our proceeds to aid their work helping refugees, specifically the many hundreds of thousands fleeing the Ukraine invasion.
Page 6-7 Special free screening: newly restored Invaders from Mars (1953)
FAFF Program Director Christy Addis-Gutierrez has had first-hand experience volunteering with Choose Love inside the unofficial refugee camp that grew to 11,000 in Calais, France before it was dismantled a few years ago. She witnessed the kindness, devotion, ingenuity, perseverence, and plain old hard work that Choose Love exhibits as they dedicate themselves to alleviating the everyday problems that refugees face.
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Spotlight: Films about Dance/Movement
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Spotlight: Films about Sculpture
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Spotlight: Films from the Middle East
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Index, by Category
Please donate to CHOOSE LOVE if you can; see our website link or go to donate.chooselove.org/campaigns/ukraine-appeal/
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Index, by Series
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FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 7pm-11pm Times are approximate. Foreign language films have English subtitles. Program subject to change.
7:00pm
THE HIGH WIRE ACT
7:07pm
THE SOVEREIGN
7:23pm
PHOBIA
7:30pm
RE-OPENING: A LOCKDOWN MOCKUMENTARY
Director: Frederic Havens (United States) SHORT DOCUMENTARY (Out of Competition), 6 minutes Part of our in-person festival only and not online. Director: Myriah Rose Marquez (United States) EXPERIMENTAL FILM, 15 minutes (also part of the Gray Series online) Director: Waseem H Almarzouki (Syrian Arab Republic) ANIMATED FILM, 6 minutes (also part of the Green Series online)
Directors: Chris Guerra and Matthew John Koppin (United States) FEATURE NARRATIVE, 91 minutes (also part of the Gray Series online) Q&A with the filmmaking team (subject to change) 9:30pm
INVADERS FROM MARS (1953) IGNITE FILMS restored version
Director: William Cameron Menzies (USA) FEATURE NARRATIVE, restored 1953 film (Out of Competition), 78 minutes Courtesy of Ignite Films SEE PAGES 6-7 FOR MORE INFORMATION Part of our in-person festival only and not available from FAFF online.
For film descriptions, see the
COMPLETE FILM GUIDE starting on page 8
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Image: Courtesy of A Poet's Life, line art by Abdul M. Mokhtar
For COVID-19 compliance issues, check our website prior to attending for the latest information.
BEYOND BAROQUE 681 Venice Boulveard, Venice CA
TICKETS:
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Free public parking behind SPARC Building next door Public transportation from DTLA: MTA Bus 33 or 733 or Metro Expo Line to Culver City
PRICING:
ALL ACCESS, in-person, June 10 to 11
$25
Up to 6 hours, in-person, June 10 or 11
$10
BEST DEAL VIP ALL ACCESS for BOTH in-person
SATURDAY, JUNE 11, 12pm-11pm
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DEGREE ZERO
3:53pm
BRING ME THE HEAD OF ALFRED HITCHCOCK
FERROEQUINOLOGY
4:56pm
CAMPESINOS: AMERICA'S UNSUNG HEROES
1:15pm
A LITTLE SUN
5:18pm
HAS BEEN / NEVER WAS
1:32pm
OUT OF EXILE - THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF FRED STEIN
6:45pm
TRUTH & ILLUSION
2:59pm
NAVIGATION
7:00pm
MENDING WALLS
3:14pm
A POET'S LIFE
7:58pm
COLD BLOW LANE
3:41pm
TRAUM
8:05pm
SILENCED TREE
3:46pm
MAY WE KNOW OUR OWN STRENGTH
12:00pm
12:06pm
Director: Daniel Ablin (France) SHORT DOCUMENTARY, 5 minutes (also part of the Yellow Series online) Director: Alex Nevill (United Kingdom) FEATURE DOCUMENTARY, 66 minutes (also part of the Gray Series online) Director: Danny Caporaletti (United States) SHORT NARRATIVE, 18 minutes (also part of the Orange Series online) Directors: Peter Stein and Dawn Freer (United States) FEATURE DOCUMENTARY, 86 minutes (also part of the Black Series online) Director: Marlene Millar (Canada) MUSIC/PERFORMANCE VIDEO, 14 minutes (also part of the Gray Series online) Director: Brandon S. N. Butler (United States) SHORT NARRATIVE, 26 minutes (also part of the Red Series online) Director: Silvia Giambrone (Italy) MUSIC/PERFORMANCE VIDEO,4 minutes (also part of the Blue Series online) Director: Jih-E Peng (United States) EXPERIMENTAL FILM, 6 minutes (also part of the Orange Series online)
10:02pm
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Director: Lee Donaldson (United Kingdom) FEATURE DOCUMENTARY, 62 minutes (also part of the Black Series online) Director: Joe Poni (United States) SHORT DOCUMENTARY, 21 minutes (also part of the Purple Series online) Director: M.S. Kerr (United States) FEATURE NARRATIVE, 86 minutes (also part of the Green Series online) Director: James Stier (United Kingdom) SHORT DOCUMENTARY, 13 minutes (also part of the Orange Series online) Directors: Pam Hervey, Todd Hervey (USA) FEATURE DOCUMENTARY, 57 minutes (also part of the Green Series online)
Director: Luca Homolka (Germany) SHORT NARRATIVE/STUDENT FILM, 6 minutes (also part of the Purple Series online) Director: Faysal Soysal (Turkey) FEATURE NARRATIVE, 118 minutes (also part of the Orange Series online)
FAFF 2022 AWARDS Announcement of all award-winners and presentation of awards IN-PERSON Venice, CA June 10-11 ONLINE June 10-19
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The highly influential 1953
INVADERS FROM MARS ,
directed by the visionary and ahead-of-his-time William Cameron Menzies, has received a complete 4K restoration by Ignite Films. It’s a classic sci-fi favorite, in which a young boy witnesses a spaceship crash. He soon discovers the chilling fact that aliens are taking over the bodies of the people around him, and wonders . . . will he be next? Thanks to Ignite Films, FAFF is offering a FREE screening to headline our in-person opening night. Now FAFF is bringing this important piece of early sci-fi movie history to a whole new audience. Invaders will not be available as part of our online festival. Beyond Baroque, 681 Venice Blvd, Venice, CA Priority will go to Friday night ticket holders; for everyone else, first-come first-served. To learn more go to: www.veniceica.org/fineartsfilmfestival
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Invaders from Mars is one of the first sci-fi movies to use the device of alien invasion to examine our societal attitudes about 1950s Cold War politics and the paranoid anxiety that accompanied it. That paranoia crept into everyday life, as evidenced by the duck-andcover drills practiced by schoolchildren crouching under desks to protect against a possible nuclear attack. It's told from the point of view of 10-year old David (Jimmy Hunt), overwhelmed by fear as he slowly realizes what the aliens are doing to his friend Kathy (Janine Perreau) and his parents (Hillary Brooke, Leif Erikson). He is able to confide in kindly Dr. Pat Blake (Helena Carter) and astronomer Dr. Stuart Kelston (Arthur Franz). His fears are reflected in the eerie soundtrack, exaggerated sets, and upward camera angles. Details that a kid wouldn’t notice anyway are not included in the sometimes spare-looking sets. Of particular note is the long police station hallway set that is created with forced perspective, which underscores the boy’s emotional state of mind. Director William Cameron Menzies is perhaps better known for designing sets than for directing sci-fi. He earned the first-ever Academy Award for art direction, and later created the concept of and coined the term production designer, while designing Gone with the Wind’s unforgettable sets. His visual approach to Invaders enhances the story in a way that other sci-fi films of the 1950s couldn't reach. Ignite Films embarked on a pain-staking and yearslong process, gathering film elements from hidden vaults and forgotten archives from around the world. Master preservationist Scott MacQueen, who was head of restoration at UCLA Film & Television, oversaw the restoration, an accomplishment that is as much an artform as it is a technical feat.
Opposite/above: A collection of Invaders posters from the period Above right: Film stills, after the restoration process. To learn about the restoration, go to ONLINE www.ignite-films.com/en-us/pages/restoration-of-invaders-from-mars TICKETS/INFO: www.veniceica.org/fineartsfilmfestival IN-PERSON Venice, CA June 10-11 June 10-19 FAFF/Fine Art Film Festival 2022 Page 7
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Listed alphabetically. Listings by Series or by Category, see index pages 27-29. Foreign language films have English subtitles.
SCREENINGS FRIDAY, JUNE 10 – SUNDAY, JUNE 19 AN IMPROBABLE ODYSSEY– THE LIFE AND TIMES OF BRIAN WALL
#ART
30 SECOND THOUGHTS: VOLUME ONE
Director: Peter Stern (United States) FEATURE DOCUMENTARY, 60 minutes, Orange Series.
Director: José Assadourian Martínez (Mexico) STUDENT FILM, 26 minutes Orange Series.
Brian Wall had a unique experience as a central figure in three important contemporary art centers. The film follows him from St. Ives, Cornwall, a hub for young artists in the 1950s, to the influential Sculpture of the Sixties movement in London, and on to Northern California where Brian was an important part of the art movement of the times. Not merely being “in the right place at the right time”, Brian helped shape every art community he shared in.
#ART features a cross-section of Mexican artists navigating their art practices amid COVID-19 restrictions. They are depending, more than ever, on social networks to be able to work and collaborate. This relationship between art and the internet, deepened dramatically by COVID-19, shapes the lives of artists for better or for worse.
30 SECOND THOUGHTS is a series of two; the first is We Shall Overcoat, a tongue-in-cheek look at choosing a color to represent the revolution and its "branding", and the second one is Evil Man, and man, is he evil.
Director: David Baeumler (United States) EXPERIMENTAL FILM, 1 minute Green Series.
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A LITTLE SUN
Director: Peter Stern (United States) FEATURE DOCUMENTARY, 60 minutes, Orange Series. PRICING:
Director: Danny Caporaletti (United States) SHORT NARRATIVE, 18 minutes Orange Series.
Directors: Adriano Morán and María Zozaya (Spain) SHORT DOCUMENTARY, 27 minutes Black Series.
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Two teenagers skip school and head to the river, where they encounter a mysterious man that forever alters their relationship to one another. A LITTLE SUN is about young love, and that inevitable moment when the harsh realities of the modern world swallow our youth and propel us into adulthood, whether we’re ready for it or not.
The portrait painted by Francisco de Goya of a diva of the Spanish theater in the second half of the 18th century, María del Rosario Fernández, known as La Tirana, will be the star of an exhibition at the Fundación Juan March. The story of the exhibition, with an important restoration involving professionals and scientists from different disciplines, involves artists such as Rafael Álvarez "el Brujo" and the Quiroga quartet, and also contemporaries of La Tirana such as Goya himself.
Program subject to change
A NEW PREMIERE FOR LA TIRANA
ABSENCE OF SENSE FOR THE ABSENCE OF SENSE
AFTER THE BEEP
Deserted by his muse, a poet begins to question his life's calling as his younger brother battles cancer. Starring David Marciano (Homeland, Bosch, The Shield). A POET'S LIFE is a heart-wrenching and intimate look at aging, mortality, and the meaning of living a creative life.
This visual poem explores ingrained habits, such as how we interact with screens using our hands. With our lives surrounded by screens, will our gestures, which used to communicate with the physical world, fade away, becoming a vague echo? This surreal journey considers the sense and the body, which were intertwined as one, as they slowly separate and fall asleep, asif walking in a parallel line.
After a long day, a haggard salesman listens to his voicemails as they take him to new highs and lows, and, eventually, a motel walkway. There, a conversation with a stranger gives him perspective. And maybe hope? AFTER THE BEEP is a savvy little observation about life's twists and turns, made with a 3-man crew, a $300 budget, and 16 straight hours of filming.
AN IMPROBABLE ODYSSEY– THE LIFE AND TIMES OF BRIAN WALL
ANATOMY, STUDY OF THE WALL
AND ONLY LOVE RESURRECTS
Director: Peter Stern (United States) FEATURE DOCUMENTARY, 60 minutes, Orange Series.
Director: Diana Larrea (United States) SHORT DOCUMENTARY, 6 minutes Purple Series.
Brian Wall had a unique experience as a central figure in three important contemporary art centers. The film follows him from St. Ives, Cornwall, a hub for young artists in the 1950s, to the influential Sculpture of the Sixties movement in London, and on to Northern California where Brian was an important part of the art movement of the times. Not merely being “in the right place at the right time”, Brian helped shape every art community he shared in.
This is the latest project of artist Nathalie Alfonso, whose work investigates the economics and impact of manual labor, physical endurance, and notions of impermanence. She created a site-specific, mural-size drawing with charcoal and graphite to create an illusionistic rendering of the wall's interior structural beams, then expressionistic abstractions in squares inset across the surface. This labor-intensive work will be painted over at the conclusion of the exhibition and vanish from sight.
This documentary follows important Chilean artist Fernando Daza as he paints a work inspired by a poem by Pablo Neruda of the same name. Not knowing that it will be his last work. Daza keeps on creating until his last days, oblivious to his imminent demise.
A POET'S LIFE
Director: Brandon S. N. Butler (United States) SHORT NARRATIVE, 26 minutes Red Series.
Directors: HyeunJoo Woo and JiYoon Park (Republic of Korea) ANIMATED FILM, 8 minutes, Blue Series.
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Directors: Jared Waters and Dan Klamerus (United States) SHORT NARRATIVE, 7 minutes Green Series.
Director: Nelson Pérez Sepúlveda (Chile) FEATURE DOCUMENTARY, 70 minutes Blue Series.
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APPEAR
AS YOU LIKE IT
ASIAN CINEMA CLUB
The intimate experience of making art, and of seeing themselves as artists, profoundly changes the lives of those needing mental health support. The film explores the relationship between art and madness, the desire for personal expression, and the overarching need to be able to be a person separate from their diagnosis and the challenges that it may represent.
AS YOU LIKE IT is an animated adaptation of the famous play by William Shakespeare. It transposes the setting to a Southeast-Asian environment and uses a colorful cut-paper look reminiscent of Balinese shadow-puppets. It was created in close collaboration with the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon and its director Prof. Michael Dobson.
Hannah and James start a t-shirt company as a ruse to engage their friends into joining their Asian Cinema Club. What begins as an advertisement video becomes a reflection on Asian identity and a desire to make "art." ASIAN CINEMA CLUB has wit, spontaneity, and unpretentious performances that underscore a critical message about Asian issues.
AXIOMATA
BAD ANIMAL
BEHIND THESE WALLS
Newton's Laws of Motion are universal, and we all are bodies in motion responding to these same universal laws. In AXIOMATA, an intergenerational and inter-ethnical group of non-dancers create dance movements together at different times of day, in different seasons, and in various locations: a frozen tundra, a sunny beach, a snowy forest, a field of yellow flowers. It becomes a beautiful, somewhat haunting, somewhat hopeful, interpretation of Newton's laws.
A rising star in the Chicago music scene (Mykele Deville), whose first record was a critical and commercial success, and his manager (Rivkah Reyes, School of Rock), a talented indie artist in her own right, must confront love and fame when a new producer offers a major record deal. This film is a love letter to Chicago indie music, with original songs by The Palmer Squares, Chris Crack, Pixel Grip, Malci, Pet Symmetry, and more, while lead actor Mykele Deville is a genuine Chicago DIY music legend.
Sean “Dino” Johnson, served a 15-year prison sentence for a drug-related charge, the conviction occurring before New York State began to reform its notorious Rockefeller drug laws. While incarcerated, Johnson discovered the prison’s theater program. This compelling narrative reveal how the dramatic arts impacted his ability to self-correct and express empathy. He describes his mental and emotional transformation as liberating, concluding “I found my freedom behind those walls.”
Directors: Francine Saillant and Fanny Hénon-Levy (Canada) FEATURE DOCUMENTARY, 64 minutes, Gray Series.
Director: Beatriz Mediavilla (Canada) MUSIC/PERFORMANCE VIDEO, 19 minutes Purple Series.
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Director: Hannes Rall (Singapore) ANIMATED FILM, 26 minutes Purple Series.
Director: Remsy Atassi (United States) FEATURE NARRATIVE, 85 minutes Blue Series.
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Director: Hannah Marianetti (United States) SHORT DOCUMENTARY, 16 minutes Gray Series.
Directors: Allison Chernow, Susan Margolin, and Karin Young Shiel (United States) SHORT DOCUMENTARY, 6 minutes, Black Series.
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BETWEEN GIANTS
BLACK BIRD
This epic thrill ride, chronicling a two-month cycling trip in the Indian Himalayas, covers 3,500 miles along the highest mountain roads on the planet, including the "most treacherous road in the world." The ingenuity, perseverance, and friendship with each other and with the people met along the way lead these two intrepid cyclists to the healing they were searching for. It's an unforgettable journey.
BLACK BIRD is an evocative exploration of the brutal and A lesbian couple live in the same house as if they are in differbeautiful Yukon landscape punctuated by wolves, birds, and ent time zones. BLANC explores this awkwardness in a floaty, weird, mind-bending glitches. The foreboding soundtrack moody way. heightens the experience of loneliness, fear, and encroachment. It's like running when there’s nowhere to go, hiding like a black bird on snow.
BREATHE UNDERWATER
BRIDGE
BRING ME THE HEAD OF ALFRED HITCHCOCK
This short doc reveals the life of a film and art student who experiences a military post-trauma in the middle of his studies. BREATHE UNDERWATER contains astonishingly frank exchanges with his family, who consider PTSD to be a taboo subject. He combines family archive videos, alongside his works of video art, as he reflects on his experiences and seeks healing for his wounds.
In BRIDGE, a distraught young woman gets out of her boss’s car. An old man on the bridge notices her, and assumes that she wants to kill herself. But once he's gone, she decides to pretend a suicide to gets the attention of people whom she knows, only to find that no one cares. Until a young delivery bike rider changes her point of view towards life.
The making of an enormous sculpture of Alfred Hitchcock by renowned British artist Antony Donaldson, is documented by his son, director Lee Donaldson. This monumental sculpture stands on the site of Gainsborough Studios in North London, where Hitchcock worked until moving to Hollywood in 1939. It filmed over the last 19 years, and at times production shut down due to arguments between the two, but the filmmaking process inevitably brought understanding between them.
BLANC
Director: Nicole Rayburn (Canada) EXPERIMENTAL FILM, 5 minutes Orange Series.
Director: Maxwell Frost (United States) FEATURE DOCUMENTARY, 97 minutes Yellow Series.
Director: Eddie Shwartz (Israel) SHORT DOCUMENTARY, 42 minutes Green Series.
Director: Wenkai Wang (United States) MUSIC/PERFORMANCE VIDEO, 3 minutes Orange Series.
Director: Vahid Hassanzadeh (Islamic Republic of Iran) SHORT NARRATIVE, 15 minutes Black Series.
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Director: Lee Donaldson (United Kingdom) FEATURE DOCUMENTARY, 60 minutes Black Series.
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BUTŌ: THE RECURRING TORMENTS OF THE PUGILIST
BYSTANDING: The Feingold Syndrome
CAMPESINOS: AMERICA'S UNSUNG HEROES
Director: Amelie Ravalec (United Kingdom) EXPERIMENTAL FILM, 15 minutes, Green Series.
Director: Nim Shapira (Israel) VR FILM, 10 minutes VR Series.
Dancers Max Cookward and Paul Scott-Bullen collide against the dense and forceful power of boxer Andrew Downer. Playing with shadow and light, ghostly movements and eerie dance, it delves into the feverish dreams of a tormented fighter. It is inspired by such Japanese cultural touch points as the traditional Butoh of Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ohno, William Klein’s Tokyo 1961 Butoh photographs, and Shūji Terayama’s Boxer.
BYSTANDING: The Feingold Syndrome recreates the near-drowning of Israeli kayaking champion Jasmine Feingold in Tel Aviv's river in 2009, while dozens of people stood by and did nothing, until finally, one person did. Through VR, we are able to experience bystanders’ points of view and hear testimonies from that day, their inner thoughts, and deepest confessions.
This captivating documentary helps tell the stories of California farmworkers and documents their perseverance during one of the most challenging times in recent history, the COVID-19 pandemic. CAMPESINOS: AMERICA'S UNSUNG HEROES pays tribute to these often forgotten workers and reminds us of the benefits we enjoy due to their hard work.
COLD BLOW LANE
COLLAGE 26
COLLATERAL DAMAGE
COLD BLOW LANE tells the story of Liam and Wilson, both part of an English hooligan gang and best mates for as long as they can remember. While Wilson questions the meaning and the future as a hooligan more and more, Liam runs, almost blindly, from fight to fight and doesn't want to hear any of Wilson's concerns; in fact, he even feels personally attacked by them. A brutal fight leaves Wilson even more alone.
You'll be lulled into a mesmerized state by the splashing water and repeated swimming images of COLLAGE 26, the latest example of this filmmaker's rhythmically edited screenscapes.
This film addresses global issues of the plight of thousands of unknown migrants who have perished in the desert while crossing the border from Mexico to the U.S, who die while risking everything for a better life. This filmmaker/artist is currently participating in Venice Biennale 2022, where she has created a large-scale installation at a renowned convent in Venice for a Global Supper.
Director: Luca Homolka (Germany) SHORT NARRATIVE/STUDENT FILM, 6 minutes Purple Series.
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Director: Luis Carlos Rodríguez (Spain) EXPERIMENTAL FILM, 3 minutes Purple Series.
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Director: Joe Poni (United States) Short Documentary, 21 minutes Purple Series.
Director: Lilli Muller (United States) SHORT DOCUMENTARY, 10 minutes Green Series
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DEGREE ZERO
EXIT ATHENA
FERROEQUINOLOGY
DEGREE ZERO is a short documentary that allows us to hear the thought process of a creative, conceptual thinker. The film is visually arresting as well as deeply curious about the creative process.
EXIT ATHENA is unlike anything you've seen before. It is a hero‘s journey, a satyricon located in the world of the Olympian gods. It is an operetta, a baroque musical full of pink clouds, perfume and genitals. Its story is the fulfillment of the last prophecy of the forbidden chapter in Hesiod‘s Theogony: the downfall of the megalomaniac father of the gods, Zeus, at the hands of his own child, the goddess Athena.
Two artists enthralled by the uncanny lure of locomotion: Andrew Cross chases freight trains through the Black Rock desert in Nevada in pursuit of a perfect landscape shot. McNair Evans travels on an Amtrak train from San Francisco to Portland, sharing stories and making portraits with fellow passengers. The brilliant cinematography capturies slower travel in today’s increasingly fast-paced society.
FIVE, FOUR, THREE, TWO
FOREIGN MADE GOODS HATRED
GALLU
This film ponders Albert Camus' view that Sisyphus might be pleased with his punishment as he pushes a giant rock up a hill repeatedly. Once he accepts his fate, the punishment no longer makes sense, and is no longer in vain. The film cites this philosophy-mythology, revealing unrelated daily lives without beginning and ending, without joy or sorrow. This is expressed through shared memories of counting down numbers repeatedly and beginning a karma through the passing of a boulder.
It is difficult to imagine just how isolated students in the USSR in the 70s-80s were from Western rock and disco music. Yet a few months after the release of a new Pink Floyd album, it could be heard from open windows and clubs across Russia. The film shows us the network of music-lovers living a double life and risking prison to share the joy and power of music, bravely fighting the ideological prohibitions against Western influence. You will never again feel the same way about "Smoke on the Water".
GALLU is atmospheric, suspenseful, cinematically distinctive, and genuinely horrifying. It is the story of a village man who comes across a piece of meat by chance, and after cooking and eating it realizes the uncanny taste that is unknown to him. The search to find the same taste leads to a catastrophic turn of events, not entirely unexpected, since the word "gallu" refers to ancient underworld demons.
Director: Selma Köran (Germany) EXPERIMENTAL FILM, 14 minutes Black Series.
Director: Daniel Ablin (France) SHORT DOCUMENTARY, 5 minutes Yellow Series.
Director: Chia-Yun Wu (Taiwan) EXPERIMENTAL FILM, 13 minutes Gray Series.
Director: Alex Nevill (United Kingdom) FEATURE DOCUMENTARY, 66 minutes Gray Series.
Director: Evgeny Artemyev (Russian Federation) FEATURE DOCUMENTARY, 102 minutes Purple Series.
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Director: Kasra Tirsahar (Islamic Republic of Iran) SHORT NARRATIVE, 30 minutes Gray Series.
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GENDERF*CKER
HALF LIFE
HAS BEEN / NEVER WAS
The spectrum and constellation of gender is explored by actress and performer Pascale Drevillon in this original solo production, oscillating between indie cinema, theater and performance art. The masculine and feminine archetypes that affect us all are here embodied and then methodically deconstructed to expose their flaws.
HALF LIFE follows Stefan Nikolaev and the creation of his sculpture, entitled "Half-Life", as it takes shape in the hands of craftsmen, an ironworker and a glassblower. Nikolaev's works, the fruit of what he calls his own voluntary dislocation, revisit icons of our contemporary society, leaving a haze of "cool nostalgia" in their wake.
After living a life marked by missed chances, a down-and-out artist is given an opportunity to make good. But does he take it? HAS BEEN/NEVER WAS is funny, well-observed, and full of wisdom and satire, poking at the art world clichés we are all too familiar with. The writing is uncanny and the performances are top-notch, with many, many quotable lines. Which one is your favorite?
HELMUT LACHENMANN–MY WAY
HISTOIRE D'UNE LARME
HYENA
The composer Helmut Lachenmann, born in Stuttgart in 1935, has shaped contemporary music worldwide over the past 50 years with his "Musique Concrète Instrumentale"–a unique "noise music" in which violinists use all parts of their instruments, trumpeters crackle with baking paper, and water-filled horns are played. The film lets us participate in the thoughts of this extraordinary artist–in a phase of life in which the end is becoming increasingly tangible.
“When a terminally ill patient decides to give up his affections, his memories, his friendships, his life and asks to put an end to his cruelly 'biological' survival, I believe that his will must be respected." This is a poetic, poignant, and theatrical expression of the struggle of aging, dying, and desiring the right to choose to leave this life when the body is spent. Based on the book OCEAN TERMINAL by Piergiorgio Welby.
HYENA is a poetic and powerful one-person retelling of a woman's harrowing journey to beat alcohol addiction.
Director: Pascale Drevillon (Canada) MUSIC/PERFORMANCE VIDEO, 60 minutes Yellow Series.
Director: Stanislav Valade (France) SHORT DOCUMENTARY, 7 minutes Red Series.
Director: Wiebke Pöpel (Germany) FEATURE DOCUMENTARY, 90 minutes Yellow Series.
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Director: Giovanni Coda (Italy) EXPERIMENTAL FILM, 75 minutes Purple Series.
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Director: M.S. Kerr (United States) FEATURE NARRATIVE, 86 minutes Green Series.
Director: Jack Perez (United States) FEATURE NARRATIVE/EXPERIMENTAL FILM, 46 minutes Yellow Series.
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SPOTLIGHT IN THE BUNKER
I TITOLI CHE VORREI
Director: Sarah Signorino (Italy) STUDENT FILM, 13 minutes Gray Series.
Director: Lou Andrea Savoir (Germany) FEATURE DOCUMENTARY, 77 minutes Purple Series.
A film graduate finally manages to get a meeting with a former director, thanks to the friendship that tied the man to her grandfather, who recently passed away. In I TITOLI CHE VORREI, the student decides to record the meeting, intending to find out the mystery behind why their long-ago film project was never made.
In the heart of Berlin lies an enormous World War II bunker now inhabited by the world-famous Boros contemporary art collection, available by guided tour only. For our film, five young Boros guides agree to a hypnotic interview process, becoming in turn a piece they love, and a piece they hate. (One of the artists whose work is featured here is the subject of another FAFF film, MICHEL MAJERUS–NEXT STEP).
FILMS ABOUT
DANCE/MOVEMENT AXIOMATA
(Canada) MUSIC/PERFORMANCE VIDEO, Purple Series
BUTŌ: THE RECURRING TORMENTS OF THE PUGILIST
(United Kingdom) EXPERIMENTAL FILM, Green Series
IXCHEL
(Mexico) EXPERIMENTAL FILM, Black Series
KINTSUGI
(Spain) MUSIC/PERFORMANCE VIDEO, Purple Series
MIROIRS
(Japan) MUSIC/PERFORMANCE VIDEO, Black Series
INSIDE THE BEAUTY BUBBLE
Directors: Cheryl Bookout and Cheri Gaulke (United States) SHORT DOCUMENTARY, 31 minutes Red Series. The Beauty Bubble Salon & Museum in Joshua Tree, CA is the magical, kitsch-filled brainchild of Jeff Hafler, a self-proclaimed "hairstorian". The film shows Jeff and his roadside attraction as he struggles to keep it afloat during a year that changes his life and the lives of his husband and son. It is a film about family, fabulousness, and folk art, a film that reminds us it’s often the strong people on the margins that hold a community together.
NAVIGATION
INTANGIBLE
(Canada) MUSIC/PERFORMANCE VIDEO, Gray Series
Director: Carolina Ceca (Japan) EXPERIMENTAL FILM, 7 minutes Blue Series.
REMINISCENCE
INTANGIBLE's central theme is the mystery of birth and development of life cycles. It has a singular aesthetic, enhanced by having all the scenes filmed at the Embassy of Spain in Tokyo, Japan, during the pandemic.
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(United Kingdom) MUSIC/PERFORMANCE, Orange Series
THE OPENINGS
(Cyprus) MUSIC/PERFORMANCE VIDEO, Red Series
WILL WE MEET AGAIN?
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INVISIBLE LANDSCAPES
IXCHEL
Director: Stefan Cornic (France) SHORT DOCUMENTARY, 8 minutes Black Series.
Directors: Ana Baer and Rocio Luna (Mexico) EXPERIMENTAL FILM, 8 minutes Black Series.
JACK B. YEATS: THE MAN WHO PAINTED IRELAND
Director: Alex Verner (Ireland) SHORT DOCUMENTARY, 50 minutes, Green Series.
INVISIBLE LANDSCAPES is a fascinating deep sea exploration, with underwater photography taken to a new level.
In a Mexican environment of surreal nature, an archetypal figure is revealed through a lyrical, visual painting in motion. Crafted by the superposition of opposites: water-land, dryness-blooming, grounded-volatile, IXCHEL invites the audience on a mysterious journey loaded with visual creativity and a sensual cinematic construction.
A visionary, an enigma, and a brother to the immortal poet, William Yeats, the story of artist Jack B. Yeats has never been told on screen, until now. International bestseller Colm Tóibín undertakes a revelatory and philosophical exploration of his legacy, which is powerfully brought to life by narrator PIERCE BROSNAN.
KINTSUGI
LAST DANCE
LOST FROM SIGHT
Kintsugi is the philosophy that breaks and repairs are part of an object's history and should be shown and honored. A surgical malpractice caused dancer Olga Sasplugas to abandon her incipient professional career, and to live with pain and the impossibility of walking, when she was 25 years old. Now, 20 years and 7 operations later, Olga has invented a new way to dance, which allows her to vindicate the power and the importance of the wound, of the disability, and of the loss.
The human race has devoured itself in war, destroying the Earth. Only an AI was able to survive, left with a single single mission: the Regeneration of Mankind. Although it kept recreating the Earth and humanity over and over, hundreds of times, the cycle of human extinction did not stop - it only repeated itself every single time. When the AI notices a woman dancing alone right before her life is to end; this LAST DANCE encounter with her changes the fate of the Earth.
Marie Gaillet, a Belgian artist, has been a painter for 70 years and has been severely handicapped for 13 years by age-related macular degeneration (AMD). LOST FROM SIGHT reveals the world of this vibrant 93 years old, who still continues to paint and give painting classes.
Directors: Olga Sasplugas Rotés, Gabriel Schmitz, and Tristán Pérez-Martín (Spain) MUSIC/PERFORMANCE VIDEO,10 minutes, Purple Series.
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Director: Toshiaki Hanzaki (Japan) VR FILM, 23 minutes VR Series
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Director: Olivier Vandersleyen (Belgium) SHORT DOCUMENTARY, 24 minutes Gray Series.
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MAKING AND KNOWING: THE ART OF JAMES SULLIVAN
MAN IN A MAZE
Director: Richard Bailey (United States) SHORT DOCUMENTARY, 17 minutes, Blue Series.
Director: Sergio Jimenez (United States) SHORT NARRATIVE, 23 minutes Blue Series.
MAKE ME FAMOUS is a madcap romp through the 1980’s NYC downtown art scene amid the colorful career of ambitious painter, Edward Brezinski, hell-bent on making it. Brezinski’s quest for fame gives an intimate portrait of the art world’s attitude towards success and failure, fame and fortune, notoriety and erasure. The film exposes the history of the Lower East Side art movement in the 80s from an insider’s POV.
MAKING AND KNOWING: THE ART OF JAMES SULLIVAN is a sensitive study of this poetic figurative sculptor. He discusses art and embodiment, plus shares thoughts on his studio practices.
Grief leads a man into orchestrating a bizarre plot to retrieve a lost love's soul. MAN IN A MAZE conjures tension, suspicion, and general spookiness with a moody soundtrack and mysterious story.
MAY
MAY WE KNOW OUR OWN STRENGTH
MELANCOLIA
In the midst of our seemingly routine daily lives, such as traveling on city trains to our destination, we at times momentarily see people or hear sounds that nostalgically transports us to other times of our lives. MAY embodies that illusory, déjà vu longing.
Artist Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya explores collective healing after sexual assault within AAPI communities, tragically created in the wake of the Atlanta spa shootings. New Yorkers were asked to submit their stories anonymously and each one immediately activated one of16 internet-connected printers and lit a corresponding lightbulb, visible from a storefront window in NYC. The film recreates the process of trauma, the hurdles of healing, and the strength that can be found in community.
MELANCOLIA explores the inevitability of change, something that comes whether you search for it or not. When a nymph loses her ability to fly, the change that was forced upon her requires a complete transformation: she must let go of her yearning for the past and become something new, a being unconstrained by the limitations of her past.
MAKE ME FAMOUS
Director: Brian Vincent (United States) FEATURE DOCUMENTARY, 92 minutes Green Series.
Director: Hart Ginsburg (United States) MUSIC/PERFORMANCE VIDEO, 3 minutes Green Series.
Director: Jih-E Peng (United States) EXPERIMENTAL FILM, 6 minutes Orange Series.
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Director: Alina Popescu (Romania) ANIMATED FILM, 4 minutes Orange Series.
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ONLINE
SPOTLIGHT FILMS ABOUT SCULPTURE
AN IMPROBABLE ODYSSEY– THE LIFE AND TIMES OF BRIAN WALL
MEMORY PLACE
MENDING WALLS
Director: Peter Stern (United States) FEATURE DOCUMENTARY, 60 minutes, Orange Series.
Director: Zeynep Abes (Turkey) ANIMATED FILM, 7 minutes Red Series.
Brian Wall had a unique experience as a central figure in three AN IMPROBABLE ODYSSEY important contemporary art centers. The film follows him (United FEATURE DOCUMENTARY, Orange Series from St.States) Ives, Cornwall, a hub for young artists in the 1950s, to the influential Sculpture of the Sixties movement in London, and on to Northern California where Brian was an important part of theME art THE movement of the Not merely being “in BRING HEAD OFtimes. ALFRED HITCHCOCK the rightKingdom) place at the right time”, Brian helpedBlack shape every art (United FEATURE DOCUMENTARY, Series. community he shared in.
Three moments of memory on the fraying certainty of home are visualized through scanning techniques. The viewer is invited to 'walk inside' these moments, creating an immersive experience of a fading past. The piece explores the alienation that arises from the changing socio-political climate of Turkey as Istanbul becomes more of an idea than a place.
Artist Hamilton Glass challenges 30 artists from different backgrounds to collaborate on 16 murals in Richmond, VA. The film shows how the artists got to know each other through difficult conversations and working together ultimately opening their eyes and their hearts to the differences between them. The murals became a symbol of hope for a community in pain, sparked by the heavy-handed police response to BLM protests.
MICHEL MAJERUS - NEXT STEP
MIROIRS
The documentary MICHEL MAJERUS–NEXT STEP recalls the life and career of this prolific pop painter, and raises the question of how the lifework of an artist can adequately be kept alive after an early death. He tragically died in a plane crash at the age of 35 near his birthplace in Luxembourg. (Incidentally, Majerus's work can also be seen in IN THE BUNKER, another film in FAFF 2022.)
About 100 years after its composition, MIROIRS reinterprets Ravel's "Mirror" into a multi-disciplinary artistic work that connects contemporary dance, modern classical music, and digital art. This work depicts the nested structure of the self based on the process of a woman's growth. With the paradox of the existence of the "self" in the mirror and the "gaze" of others, it asks endless questions about the relationship between the "world/whole" and the individual.
Directors: Pam Hervey and Todd Hervey (United States) FEATURE DOCUMENTARY, 57 minutes Green Series.
COLLATERAL DAMAGE
(United States) SHORT DOCUMENTARY, Green Series
HALF LIFE
(France) SHORT DOCUMENTARY, Red Series
IN THE BUNKER
(Germany) FEATURE DOCUMENTARY, Purple Series
MAKING AND KNOWING: THE ART OF JAMES SULLIVAN (United States) SHORT DOCUMENTARY, AN IMPROBABLE ODYSSEY– Blue Series THE LIFE AND TIMES OF BRIAN WALL
Director: Peter Stern (United States) FEATURE DOCUMENTARY, THE SOUND OF TIME60 minutes, Orange Series. (Italy) SHORT DOCUMENTARY, Blue Series Brian Wall had a unique experience as a central figure in three important contemporary art centers. The film follows him from St. Ives, Cornwall, a hub for young artists in the TO UNVEIL A STAR 1950s, to the influential Sculpture of the Sixties movement (Netherlands) FEATURE DOCUMENTARY, Serieswas an in London, and on to Northern California Orange where Brian important part of the art movement of the times. Not merely being “in the right place at the right time”, Brian helped WALLACE CHAN - THEheART OFin.MATERIALS shape every art community shared (Italy) SHORT DOCUMENTARY, Red Series Page 18
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Director: Anne Schiltz (Luxembourg) SHORT DOCUMENTARY, 59 minutes Yellow Series.
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Director: Ryo Ohkawara (Japan) MUSIC/PERFORMANCE VIDEO, 57 minutes Black Series.
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MONIR
NAVIGATION
NORN Chapter 1: The 9 Daughters of RAN
This portrait of important Bangladeshi-Spanish artist Monirul Islam illustrates his range of observation and his philosophy. As the film chronicles the painter’s daily life, the strength and depth of his humanity become quietly evident. Through the details of his artwork, we find another layer of meaning from the artist as a person who is always rediscovering religion, identity, and culture for himself.
Set in the spectacular Burren region of the west coast of Ireland, NAVIGATION explores the current humanitarian crisis of displacement and dislocation that is experienced both individually and collectively. Using the land itself to explore how we navigate through unknown terrain, themes of survival and perseverance, departure, and renewal emerge in a nuanced and layered interpretation of the migration experience.
An allegorical fairytale set inside the Brain, where anatomy is mixed with Norse Mythology, tells the story of Gullveig, a cognitive thought and dream-designer at the department of Fantasy. While the mind is in the middle of civil war and Fantasy is being downsized, she encounters the power-hungry Hel who intends to destroy Dreaming and take control of the Will in order to become the supreme leader of Consciousness.
NURTURE
OCEANIC THEREMIN: A TRIPTYCH
OTONASHI
Breast milk comes quietly into the world at the time of birth to nourish newborns. It is one of those miracle things that happens everyday. NURTURE an artistic animation about breast milk, and it is warm and sweet, like its subject.
A series of emergent, jarring, and chaotic musical performances are created , then performed without conscious intervention. This is not just a video: it is a 3D digital music box, which playfully evokes our contradictory relationship to the deep ocean in the era of climate disaster. Simultaneously a source of sublime, existential terror and the quotidian dumping ground of capitalist excretions, the ocean stands in a peculiar relation to us as human beings.
OTONASHI is a collaboration between collage artist Nikola Gocić and filmmaker/composer Martin Gerigk. It is a philosophical voyage through inner and outer experiences of human existence which explores the very nature of existence, as well as an audiovisual meditation on the Buddhist teachings found in the Japanese Heart Sutra. It has beauty, insight, magical little fish, and parking cones.
Director: Marlene Millar (Canada) MUSIC/PERFORMANCE VIDEO, 14 minutes Gray Series.
Director: Ashique Mostafa (Bangladesh) FEATURE DOCUMENTARY, 79 minutes Black Series.
Director: Ying-Fang Shen (United States) Animated Film, 3 MINUTES Yellow Series.
Director: Steven Sych (Canada) EXPERIMENTAL FILM, 5 minutes Yellow Series.
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Director: Lina Reinsbakken (Norway) VR FILM, 25 minutes VR Series.
Director: Martin Gerigk (Germany) ANIMATED FILM/EXPERIMENTAL FILM, 10 minutes Black Series.
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OUT OF EXILE - THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF FRED STEIN
OUT OF THIN AIR
PHOBIA
The Nazi threat in Germany forces Fred Stein to flee for his life. Destitute, he finds a way to support himself–photography, and thousands of brilliant photographs are born. He died young, before photography was recognized as an art, and so his work is forgotten. His son, Peter, believes in his father’s work, and sets out to bring it to the attention of the art world. He soon finds out that it is not an easy task.
OUT OF THIN AIR follows three landscape painters in their seventies as they travel to Nepal to paint the Himalayas and climb the Throrong La pass. A low-octane adventure from the artistic view of the painters, who each struggle in their own way to capture the magnificence of their surroundings as well as tackling the 5400m pass by foot.
This animated film represents Fear in all its permutations. Fear feeds our emotions and sends us into a deeper and more frenzied illusion. Fear makes us a captive, wrapped and incapacitated, unable to distinguish between a delusional space and the glass of reality. Fear is a drop in the lake of a growing circle of doom. But finally being free grants us the grace of sharp vision.
PROGEDIA - WE ARE THE NIGHT
QUARANTINE CLEANSING PROJECT
RE-OPENING: A LOCKDOWN MOCKUMENTARY
PROGEDIA–WE ARE THE NIGHT is a music video, a dancing celebration, that takes us on a journey into the world of nocturnal paintings.
QUARANTINE CLEANSING PROJECT is an experimental performance with intensity and single mindedness. Under the spread of the virus, Lei, a performing artist, is required to be self-quarantined for 14 days at home. During this time, he starts a new performance art project and names it Quarantine Cleansing Record.
This mockumentary is a fully-improvised piece that follows the cast and crew of a struggling theater. They try to prepare the theater to reopen after months of lockdown, encountering setbacks along the way. A very accomplished directorial debut, it is an original, hilarious romp, with acting that is totally spoton. This film can hold its own compared to Christopher Guest mockumentaries like Waiting for Guffman or A Mighty Wind.
Directors: Peter Stein and Dawn Freer (United States) FEATURE DOCUMENTARY, 86 minutes, Black Series.
Director: Alessandro Amaducci (Italy) MUSIC/PERFORMANCE VIDEO, 5 minutes Green Series.
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Director: Jack Hextall (United Kingdom) SHORT DOCUMENTARY, 34 minutes Purple Series.
Director: Zheng Wu (China) STUDENT FILM, 12 minutes Red Series.
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Director: Waseem H Almarzouki (Syrian Arab Republic) ANIMATED FILM, 6 minutes Green Series.
Directors: Chris Guerra and Matthew John Koppin (United States) FEATURE NARRATIVE, 91 minutes , Gray Series.
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REMINISCENCE
REPUBLIC 99
RES POLA
REMINISCENCE explores how memories are given meaning by the context in which they are being remembered. Through a frame-by-frame process, the tale is told of one old woman’s past emotional journey, which is intrinsically linked to joy, regret and the passing of time. Her young self begins physically filling the empty spaces with anything and everything she can.
Three young directors explore the past and present of local art, in and around Tartar, Azerbaijan, finding parallels in the works of historical figures of almost 100 years ago to the artists of today. Each director tackles the subject in their own unique way. The desire to understand and relate to the cultural leaders of their area, past and present, is the interlinking concept of REPUBLIC 99.
This metaportrait stars Czech-German artist and photographer Pola Sieverding and her work, leading us through a world full of signs, inspirations and references, meditating on concept, desire and value creation. An adventurous red glove, an independent sound level, and the hermaphroditic cryptocurrency "Oysters" serve as central motifs. It is a homage to the intentional, the artificial, and the sovereignty of artistic authorship.
REVERBERATING INTERFERENCES – EXPLORATIONS INTO THINGNESS
SILENCED TREE
SPRAYING POSITIVITY
Director: Monika Jaeckel (United Kingdom) MUSIC/PERFORMANCE VIDEO, 19 minutes, Red Series.
Director: Faysal Soysal (Turkey) FEATURE NARRATIVE, 118 minutes Orange Series.
REVERBERATING INTERFERENCES–EXPLORATIONS INTO THINGNESS is the result of a performative research project, which took place over three days in October 2020 at the Wayne McGregor Studios under the limitations of Covid-19. These interferences are brought about through patterns of movement and countermovement put in motion by bodies— both human and nonhuman.
SILENCED TREE is a not-to-be-missed tour de force. It is the story of Hayati, a small-town literature teacher and a one-hitwonder author who tries helplessly to hold on to his past: his shattering marriage, his sick old mother, a decaying walnut tree, and the memory of his father. Eventually he must confront the question: is standing idle while witnessing evil being done just as much of a sin as doing it?
Exploring the creative mind of a dyslexic Indian graffiti artist named A-kill, SPRAYING POSITIVITY brings us into the artist's world and attempts to offer a new perspective on graffiti, by showcasing it as everything but "vandalism".
Directors: Julia Zakharova, Sofia Silkina, and Adel Takkeze (Russian Federation) FEATURE DOCUMENTARY, 99 minutes, Red Series.
Director: Jo An Li (United Kingdom) MUSIC/PERFORMANCE VIDEO, 4 minutes Orange Series.
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Director: Marc Comes (Germany) SHORT DOCUMENTARY/EXPERIMENTAL FILM, 20 minutes Orange Series.
Director: Mansha Totla (India) STUDENT FILM, 3 minutes Yellow Series.
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STILL LIFE
STILL MAX
SUM OF OUR PARTS
STILL LIFE is an ode to the black woman and her voice. It merges historical paintings of the past, with what could be modern day scenarios. Yet it portrays a repetition of history eating itself.
A diagnosis of prostate cancer inspires multidisciplinary artist Max Dean to begin an all-consuming creative project that offers an unconventional first-hand account of this disease. He enlists a team of discarded figures from a decommissioned amusement ride to help him negotiate his diagnosis. The question, “how do we fix ourselves?” is central to this emotional humanist portrait of creativity, resilience, hope, art, and cancer.
Deeply entwined with the practice four Singaporean performance artists, the film serves as an intimate inquiry into their experience of the physical body; weighing on and grounding them—shaping, bending, and ebbing with the passing of time and life. The film presents a collection of extracts from the artists’ documented performances, stylistically shot and ordered to explore the depth and beauty of their art.
SURRENDER. YOU ARE SURROUNDED BY LANGUAGE
SURVIVING 9/11–27 HOURS UNDER THE RUBBLE
THE ART TO BE (L'ART D'ETRE)
SURRENDER. YOU ARE SURROUNDED BY LANGUAGE is an experimental attempt to understand how the process of subjectivation happens. It aims to be a mix of psychoanalysis, capitalism, and chaos.
20 years after September 11, SURVIVING 9/11 - 27 Hours Under the Rubble features exclusive and never-before-seen 360° images of the World Trade Center remastered for virtual reality, this experience is a unique dive into the story of the last survivor rescued from the rubble at Ground Zero.
THE ART TO BE (L'ART D'ETRE) is a political manifesto of Brazilian painter Alvaro Querzoli. This anti-war film reflects the political activism of an unusual artist, who uses black powder to express himself. He is a fascinating and off-kilter artist, constantly looking for new ways of expression; he even burns and blows up stuff! The film serves as an eye-opening investigation into what makes him tick.
Director: Diana Ali Chire (United States) SHORT NARRATIVE, 4 minutes Yellow Series.
Director: Katherine Knight (Canada) FEATURE DOCUMENTARY, 75 minutes Red Series.
Director: Leon Vilhena Jordan (Brazil) EXPERIMENTAL FILM, 2 minutes, Blue Series.
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Director: Chloé Rochereuil (France) VR FILM, 20 minutes, VR Series.
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Director: Olivia Tan (Singapore) STUDENT FILM, 17 minutes Black Series.
Director: Gianni Marchesi (Switzerland) SHORT DOCUMENTARY, 50 minutes Orange Series.
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SPOTLIGHT THE BRIDGE
THE CEMETERY
THE BRIDGE utilizes a bridge as a universal symbol of coming and going, and of the desperate search for connections.
In THE CEMETERY, women and girls were once buried alive. Empty graves were built in large numbers, and these empty and ready graves inspired the filmmaker to imagine a lonely woman, a woman who is buried alive and wants to come out. The sorrow is palpable, and the image of those graves is powerful and unforgettable.
Director: Ali Reza Beigi (Islamic Republic of Iran) EXPERIMENTAL FILM, 3 minutes Red Series.
Director: Ulises A Morales (Spain) EXPERIMENTAL FILM, 4 minutes Yellow Series.
FILMS from the MIDDLE EAST BREATHE UNDERWATER
(Israel) SHORT DOCUMENTARY, Green Series
BRIDGE
(Islamic Republic of Iran) SHORT NARRATIVE, Black Series
BYSTANDING: The Feingold Syndrome (Israel) VR FILM, VR Series
GALLU
(Islamic Republic of Iran) SHORT NARRATIVE, Gray Series
MEMORY PLACE
(Turkey) ANIMATED FILM, Red Series
PHOBIA THE HOLY WATER
THE IRASCIBLES: FOR THE SECOND TIME
Director: Aleksandra Timan (United States) STUDENT FILM, 10 minutes Purple Series.
Directors: Adriano Morán, Manuel Fontán del Junco, and Guillermo Nagore (Spain) SHORT DOCUMENTARY, 24 minutes, Gray Series.
A desperate woman sells her most valuable family heirloom to a televangelist scam artist with the hope of curing her cancer.
This is the story of a frustrated exhibition: that of the artists who protested in 1950 because their work was not on display in the museum—and half a century later it is on display but cannot be seen because of the pandemic—and the story of their redemption. A portrait of these artists–Pollock, Rothko, Reinhardt, Newman, De Kooning, and ten more–would become the canonical portrait of American abstract expressionism.
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(Syrian Arab Republic) ANIMATED FILM, Green Series
SILENCED TREE
(Turkey) FEATURE NARRATIVE, Orange Series
THE CEMETERY
(Islamic Republic of Iran) EXPERIMENTAL FILM, Red Series
WHERE THE WINDS DIE
(Islamic Republic of Iran) ANIMATED FILM, Gray Series
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THE LAMB
Directors: Hélène Matte and Marco Dubé (Canada) EXPERIMENTAL FILM, 4 minutes Blue Series.
Director: Nima B. Djavidani (Cyprus) MUSIC/PERFORMANCE VIDEO, 6 minutes Red Series.
THE OPENINGS
THE SOUND OF TIME
The result of a collaboration between the interdisciplinary poets and artists Hélène Matte and Marion Collé, THE LAMB brings poetry to life by exploring its relationship to the body and to sacrifice. In the ravage of the real, in the hemorrhage of living, the protagonist spins and spins, in mesmerizing slowmo, to sacrifice for our entertainment.
A woman and her double create dance movements constrained by a tight border, to the ethereal sounds of opera. THE OPENINGS is inspired by Iranian poet and writer Amhdi Akhaven Sales, and Iranian opera and folk singer Pari Zanganeh.
THE SOUND OF TIME concentrates on the second half of the 20th century in Italy, and in particular on the interpretation of sculpture made by three women artists who were active in the 60s: Gabriella Benedini (Cremona, 1932), Amalia Del Ponte (Milan, 1936) and Grazia Varisco (Milan, 1937).
THE SOVEREIGN
TO UNVEIL A STAR
TRAUM
THE SOVEREIGN is an anti-narrative, Short Experimental, "trance-film" with a central oneiric character named Myriah Marquez. Myriah is transported through a series of memories while struggling with psychosis that make her come face to face with her future. She finds power in herself to separate dream from reality for ultimate sovereignty. Or so she thinks... Whether dream or reality, reason or madness: we're here and then we die.
An essay-film about the multifaceted, and elusive relationship between a sculpture, a symbol, and the organization it represents. The film's questions regarding the artwork in front of the NATO headquarters in Brussels set off an inquiry into the director’s own changing political position and shine a critical light on NATO as an organization in motion.
The word "traum" means dream in German, but in Italian and English it sounds like the word trauma. As a piece of performance art, TRAUM aims to articulate the often painfully inexpressible and isolating aspects of domestic violence. This powerful film offers a space where audience members become collective witnesses to a shared experience of catharsis, with an opportunity to share and heal collectively.
Director: Myriah Rose Marquez (United States) EXPERIMENTAL FILM, 15 minutes Gray Series.
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Director: Juul Hondius (Netherlands) FEATURE DOCUMENTARY, 61 minutes Orange Series.
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Director: Tomaso Pirotta (Italy) SHORT DOCUMENTARY, 23 minutes Blue Series.
Director: Silvia Giambrone (Italy) MUSIC/PERFORMANCE VIDEO,4 minutes Blue Series.
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TRUTH & ILLUSION
TULIPOMANIA: GONE
UGOKU TOKAI - MOVING CITY
Lucy Ridges is a visual artsis who works with predominantly analog photography and the nude female form to create beautiful, strange and otherworldly prints. There is a spirit of surrealism in her work, created through photographic techniques that invoke mood and texture, leading to a body of work that sits somewhere between the truth of our world and the illusions photography can create.
This music video is a torrent of tattered animated objects and shredded collage, amid sounds of the death knell for the status quo. The musical group Tulipomania has alternately been categorized as ‘cult synth punks’, ‘glam-leaning’, ‘postpunk’, ‘art-rock’, and ‘muscular chamber pop’, and they want to know: When money talks, who is listening?
This expereimental film quietly reveals itself to be a masterwork. A melancholy-looking young man in a business suit goes on an adventure into his own city. Guided by a mysterious map, he discovers twelve paths with a special relationship to time and space. Life is movement, and as he wanders through the city, he begins to pose life questions about a meaningful existence.
UKU PACHA - Modular VR
UNSEEN
VENICE ELSEWHERE
In an old van crossing the Andes, three unknown passengers share a secret. A person has committed suicide, the victim of false news spread on social media, and someone blames them for it. You are the fourth passenger and witness of their journey through the Incan underworld of UKU PACHA where each trip is a different story, a recurring dream where events never happen in the same way, and in order to provide an opportunity for salvation or condemnation.
UNSEEN is a virtual reality experience designed in partnership with survivors, those on the front lines of intervention, the nonprofit sector, and students and faculty from various universities, Unseen takes you into the complex world of human trafficking through the lens of two characters — Maya and Victoria — their families, and those who have been part of their journeys.
This film seeks to understand how it is possible to tell the story of a city, in a world of television images and artificial sensations that perhaps describe it better than the original. We meet people who have decided to dedicate their lives to the city of canals, bridges and Doges, without ever having visited it: a distillate of imagination. Who can understand a city that has almost disappeared better than someone who has never seen it?
Directors: Cheryl Gelover and Tom Murray (United States) MUSIC/PERFORMANCE VIDEO, 3 minutes Gray Series.
Director: James Stier (United Kingdom) SHORT DOCUMENTARY, 13 minutes Orange Series.
Director: Diego Bonilla (Ecuador) VR FILM, 15 minutes VR Series
Director: Iris Cole (United States) VR Film, 20 minutes VR Series
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Director: Lars Ostmann (Germany) EXPERIMENTAL FILM, 95 minutes Red Series.
Director: Elia Romanelli (Italy) FEATURE DOCUMENTARY, 65 minutes Blue Series.
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WALLACE CHAN - THE ART OF MATERIALS
VEXOH — A MEMORY CAPSULE
WARRIOR SPIRIT
Director: Cyrill Durigon (France) MUSIC/PERFORMANCE VIDEO, 1 minute Blue Series.
Director: Martina Margaux Cozzi (Italy) SHORT DOCUMENTARY, 12 minutes Red Series.
Director: Sarah Lois Dorai (Malaysia) MUSIC/PERFORMANCE VIDEO, 4 minutes Yellow Series.
In VEXOH–A MEMORY CAPSULE sometimes dreams feel like memories, and memories feel like dreams. Do you remember when was the last time you felt carefree? Lighthearted? Do you remember before the world pandemic? The parties, the music, the crowd? It was a soft summer night, and we danced together.
This latest documentary by award-winning director Martina Margaux Cozzi is a visually stimulating portrait of Hong Kongbased multidisciplinary artist Wallace Chan. It chronicles the artist's debut into the world of sculpture fuelled by his desire to innovate. A tribute to creation itself, the film delves into Chan's mind to uncover the intricate relationship between materials, time, and space.
WARRIOR SPIRIT is a statement of culture and identity of the indigenous tribes of Borneo, from voices of indigenous peoples themselves.The instrumental music and the large number of dancers pay homage to the traditional practice of mass dancing and to metaphorically reflect the strength that is found in community, which is central to indigenous people groups.
WHERE THE WINDS DIE
WILL WE MEET AGAIN?
WORLDBUILDING
Sardasht is a Kurdish city in the West of Iran. During the IranIraq War in 1987, Sardasht was the first city in the world to be victim of chemical weapons with mustard gas bombs. WHERE THE WINDS DIE is an animated film about before and after this bombing on civilians.
WILL WE MEET AGAIN? is a short dance film portraying an expression of couplehood, tender and light, honest and captivating. Shown through the prism of dance, those who are separated work to keep feelings of closeness intact, allowing them to appear just like open doors leading to the past and to the hope of a future reunion.
WORLDBUILDING is the creative practice of constructing a new paradigm and place. Learn the best practices for worldbuilding from the specialists pioneering this area of study; psychologists Dr. Marjorie Taylor and Dr. Keith Oatley, as well as editor Jeni Chapelle, and award-winning authors Linda Sue Park, Eliot Treichel, and Jordan Ifueko.
Director: Pejman Alipour (Islamic Republic of Iran) ANIMATED FILM, 13 minutes Gray Series.
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Directors: Lionel Ah-Sou and Lisa Magnan (France) MUSIC/PERFORMANCE VIDEO, 6 minutes Yellow Series.
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Director: Shauna C. Murphy (United States) STUDENT FILM, 22 minutes Green Series.
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INDEX by CATEGORY ANIMATION Absence of Sense for the Absence of Sense As You Like It Melancolia Memory Place Nurture Otonashi Phobia Where the Winds Die
EXPERIMENTAL FILM Black Bird Butō: the Recurring Torments of the Pugilist Collage 26 Exit Athena Five, Four, Three, Two Histoire D'une Larme Hyena Intangible Ixchel May We Know Our Own Strength Oceanic Theremin: a Triptych Otonashi Res Pola Surrender. You Are Surrounded by Language. The Bridge The Cemetery The Lamb The Sovereign Ugoku Tokai–Moving City
VIRTUAL REALITY Bystanding: The Feingold Syndrome Last Dance NORN Chapter 1: The 9 Daughters of RAN Surviving 9/11 — 27 Hours Under the Rubble Uku Pacha Unseen
FEATURE DOCUMENTARY
SHORT DOCUMENTARY
An Improbable Odyssey–the Life and Times of Brian Wall And Only Love Resurrects Appear Between Giants Bring Me the Head of Alfred Hitchcock Ferroequinology Foreign Made Goods Hatred Helmut Lachenmann–My Way In the Bunker Make Me Famous Mending Walls Monir Out of Exile–the Photography of Fred Stein Republic 99 Still Max To Unveil a Star Venice Elsewhere
A New Premiere for La Tirana Anatomy, Study of the Wall Asian Cinema Club Behind These Walls Breathe Underwater Campesinos: America's Unsung Heroes Collateral Damage Degree Zero Half Life Inside the Beauty Bubble Invisible Landscapes Jack B. Yeats: the Man Who Painted Ireland Lost from Sight Making and Knowing: the Art of James Sullivan Michel Majerus–Next Step Out of Thin Air Res Pola The Art to Be The Irascibles: for the Second Time The Sound of Time Truth & Illusion Wallace Chan–the Art of Materials
FEATURE NARRATIVE Bad Animal Has Been / Never Was Re-opening: a Lockdown Mockumentary Silenced Tree Hyena
MUSIC/PERFORMANCE Axiomata Blanc Genderf*cker Kintsugi May Miroirs Navigation Progedia–We Are the Night Reminiscence Reverberating Interferences–Explorations Into Thingness The Openings Traum Tulipomania: Gone Vexoh–a Memory Capsule Warrior Spirit Will We Meet Again?
SHORT NARRATIVE A Little Sun A Poet's Life After the Beep Bridge Cold Blow Lane Gallu Man in a Maze Still Life
STUDENT FILM #art Cold Blow Lane I Titoli Che Vorrei Quarantine Cleansing Project Spraying Positivity Sum of Our Parts The Holy Water Worldbuilding Image: The Openings
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SERIES: Each is a mix, a sample of different categories, 12 -13 films, totaling 6+ hours each. $10 OR
A New Premiere for La Tirana, Short Documentary
Absence of Sense for the Absence of Sense, Animation
Behind These Walls, Short Documentary
And Only Love Resurrects, Feature Documentary
Bridge, Short Narrative
Bad Animal, Feature Narrative
Bring Me the Head of Alfred Hitchcock, Feature Doc
Intangible, Experimental Film
Exit Athena, Experimental Film
ALL ACCESS 100+ films only $25
Making and Knowing: the Art of James Sullivan, Short Doc
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Asian Cinema Club, Short Doc Ferroequinology, Feature Doc Five, Four, Three, Two, Experimental Film Gallu, Short Narrative I Titoli Che Vorrei, Student Film
30 Second Thoughts (2 Sections), Experimental Film After the Beep, Short Narrative Breathe Underwater, Short Doc Butō: the Recurring Torments of the Pugilist, Experimental Film Collateral Damage, Short Doc Has Been / Never Was, Feature Narrative
Man in a Maze, Short Narrative
Lost from Sight, Short Doc
Ixchel, Experimental Film
Surrender. You Are Surrounded by Language, Experimental Film
Miroirs, Music/Performance
The Lamb, Experimental Film
Monir, Feature Documentary
The Sound of Time, Short Doc
Navigation, Music/Performance Jack B. Yeats: the Man Who Painted Ireland, Short Doc Re-opening: a Lockdown Make Me Famous, Feature Doc Mockumentary, Feature Narrative May, Music/Performance The Irascibles: for the Second Mending Walls, Feature Doc Time, Short Documentary
Invisible Landscapes, Short Documentary
Otonashi, Animated+Experimental Traum, Music/Performance
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Appear, Feature Documentary
Out of Exile–the Photography of Fred Stein, Feature Doc Sum of Our Parts, Student Film
Venice Elsewhere, Feature Doc
The Sovereign, Experimental
Phobia, Animated Film
Vexoh–a Memory Capsule, Music/Performance
Tulipomania: Gone, Music/ Performance
Progedia–We Are the Night, Music/Performance
Where the Winds Die, Animated Worldbuilding, Student Film Images, L to R: 30 Seconds/We Shall Overcoat, Miroirs, Vexoh–A Memory Capsule, Navigation, Breathe Underwater, Melancolia, Collage 26, Republic 99, Warrior Spirit, Norn Chapter 1: The 9 Daughters of RAN Page 28
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#art, Student Film A Little Sun, Short Narrative
Anatomy, Study of the Wall, Short Documentary As You Like It, Animated Film
A Poet's Life, Short Narrative
Between Giants, Feature Doc
Half Life, Short Documentary
Degree Zero, Short Documentary
An Improbable Odyssey–the Life Inside the Beauty Bubble, Axiomata,Music/Performance and Times of Brian Wall, Short Documentary Feature Documentary Campesinos: America's Unsung Memory Place, Animated Film Heroes, Short Documentary Black Bird, Experimental Film Quarantine Cleansing Project, Cold Blow Lane, Short Narrative Student Film Blanc, Music/Performance + Student Film May We Know Our Own Strength, Republic 99, Feature Doc Experimental Film Collage 26, Experimental Film Reverberating Interferences– Melancolia, Animated Film Foreign Made Goods Hatred, Explorations Into Thingness, Feature Documentary Music/Performance Reminiscence, Music/Performance Histoire D'une Larme, Still Max, Feature Documentary Res Pola, Short Documentary + Experimental Film Experimental Film The Cemetery, Experimental In the Bunker, Feature Doc Silenced Tree, Feature Narrative The Openings, Music/ Kintsugi, Music/Performance Performance The Art to Be, Short Doc Out of Thin Air, Short Doc Ugoku Tokai–Moving City, To Unveil a Star, Feature Doc Experimental Film The Holy Water, Student Film Truth & Illusion, Short Doc Wallace Chan–the Art of Materials, Short Documentary
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Genderf*cker, Music/Performance Helmut Lachenmann–My Way, Feature Documentary
Bystanding: The Feingold Syndrome, Virtual Reality Last Dance, Virtual Reality NORN Chapter 1: The 9 Daughters of RAN, Virtual Reality Surviving 9/11 — 27 Hours Under the Rubble, Virtual Reality
Hyena, Feature Narrative + Experimental Film
Uku Pacha, Virtual Reality
Michel Majerus–Next Step, Short Documentary
Unseen, Virtual Reality
Nurture, Animated Film Oceanic Theremin: a Triptych, Experimental Film Spraying Positivity, Student Film Still Life, Short Narrative The Bridge, Experimental Film Warrior Spirit, Music/Performance Will We Meet Again?, Music/Performance
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