Bright Future Short

Mysterious miniature about the reproduction of contaminated, screen-printed images as patches on a woman's clothing; with melancholy audio collage.

Screened in 16mm, this experimental travelogue is quintessentially Vivian Ostrovsky, exploring themes of transit and movement in a dreamy style.

Arnold Schwarzenegger, presented here as a living work of art, gives his vision on classical sculpture, body and mind, ideal beauty and more.

Switching back and forth between two antipodal cities, filmmaker Iván Argote digs an imaginary tunnel between Indonesia and Colombia.

A personal exploration of identity, liberation and the diaspora from the shores of Goa to Mozambique and Angola.

Despite a long Biennale history, this Venice pavilion has never presented Austria's leading experimental film culture. Until now, that is.

Digital rituals in the analogue Cloud. They carry their gadgets to optimize the experience. They believe that this moment will remain unforgotten. (Light Cone)

In a soft pastel light, a man on horseback herds his sheep through thepicturesque mountains for rural Montana. "A twilight pastoral". (LUX)

Re-enactment of a scene from a famous American primetime soap becomes a psychodrama full of petit bourgeois fears in tasteless interiors.

A celebration of post-menopausal femininity. Emboldened by the re-emergence of their menstrual flow, these women reclaim their erotic power.

This essayistic film explores the history and legacy of the 'animal trials' that took place in medieval Europe.

Vivid reconstruction of discordant border between Morocco and Spanish exclave Ceuta, where thousands try to smuggle in cheap goods daily.

Lundberg has filmed the vocal cords of four singers. The song is 'Kyrie' from a mass written by Thomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611). (Filmform)

Fleshy objects, composed of gel usually used for testing the penetrability of bullets into humans, are repeatedly crushed by a hydraulic press. (AV-arkki)

deardiary uses machine learning to answer your questions now. Just enter your innermost thoughts in the diary panel: fears, judgments, projections. (Vtape)

Muslim youth of Brexit Britain share their painful experiences of discrimination in this powerful two-screen film, demanding for them to be heard.

Combining abstract and tactile properties, this 16mm film captures the energy of the Experimental Concrete Workshop in Las Pozas, Mexico.

A blurry camera probes the world around as the filmmaker elucidates our collective fears about a world in peril from behind the lens. (Collectif Jeune Cinéma)

Peeling back the shrouded image, Exhumation is a reanimation of long-lost desire. (CFMDC)

A few men, sent onto the Moon to cultivate it, are waiting for the arrival of the Earthlings. But who are they?

A film crew uses pigeons, goldfish and caged plants to tell a refugee's story. But is it theirs to tell?

Slices of black radish on unexposed film lead to effective explosions of light right through the dark, photochemical emulsion.

3D scans of sleeping people, and analogue and digital conversions, create dissociative images. Electro-acoustic ambient reinforces the other-worldly vibe.

Playing with the principle of the after-image, dozens of fast-edited kissing scenes from European and American film classics collide.

Holes, ripped jeans, open-pit mining and doubting Thomas. This obsession with holes is really getting out of hand.

Müller collected the most kitschy and colourful images of disturbed housewifes in evening gowns from 1950s Hollywood melodramas and re-cut them. (sixpack)

Loving, 16mm ode to Scottish poet and avant-garde filmmaker Margaret Tait. Fowler circles her home on Orkney, zooming in on her notebooks.

Lasers create hologram-like colour and light fields in space. Floating mandalas, moiré patterns and precise rhythms provide a hypnotic experience.

In the middle of a sleepless night a variety of digital devices provide comfort and distraction for a restless mind. But does it help? (CIRCUIT)

Solar-powered A.I. Natasha informs us of the complex dynamic between labour and geology on Bangka Island, Indonesia, where most tin comes from.

Opening performance in V2_ of SVNSCRNS: a kinetic audio-visual installation consisting of seven rotating video screens and speakers developed within the context of Lightforms.

Performance in V2_ of SVNSCRNS: a kinetic audio-visual installation consisting of seven rotating video screens and speakers developed within the context of Lightforms.

SVNSCRNS is a kinetic light and sound installation developed by Klankvorm, consisting of seven rotating video screens and speakers.

The Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven was a poet, artist, vaudeville performer, runaway, rabble rouser, crossdresser, and all around public provocateur. (ARGOS)

The Little White Cloud That Cried is an explicit tribute to legendary underground filmmaker Jack Smith. (Arsenal)

Imagining an uncanny scenario where the gravitational pull strengthens, Basim Magdy poetically ruminates on our planet's possible future.

Goethe's poem Wanderer's Nightsong is systematically analysed. Poetry is, however, more powerful than any analysis or restructuring.

Short film about Argentine electro-acoustic composer Beatriz Ferreyra, a pioneer of musique concrète. Featuring creaking doors and more.

A humorous tale of the journey a ready-made sculpture takes down the rabbit hole of stock photo copyright and image ownership.

A photo shoot takes an unexpected turn, spiralling into dance-inspired dreamscapes. Matata flirts with liberation, away from the colonial gaze.

A film that explores history through memory and its lapses. From hypnosis to decolonisation, this is a braided tale of gaps and missing time.

Experimental recreation of the opening scene from Gillo Pontecorvo’s unmade film about the assassination of Salvadorian Archbishop Oscar Romero. (Vtape)

In the early morning, nature awakens to the sounds of the city. Urban bustle and birdsong merge into a familiar murmur.

Unexplored aspects of everyday-life: What do guards in a museum do when they assume no one watches? A snapshot. (sixpack)

Personal short film uses a series of telephone conversations with the filmmaker’s mother as she tries to reconcile facing cancer for a fourth time. (CFMDC)

From subway cars dumped in the ocean to fossils in marble slabs, eternally spiralling into each other to the tune of steel drums.

Bassel Abi Chahine, a self-described reincarnation of a dead soldier from the Lebanese civil war, recalls past details with remarkable precision.

Based on Voyage autour de ma chambre by Xavier de Maistre, Una película en color is a Super-8 film about colour, texture and space.

Can one relax under the gaze of a camera? A film crew struggles to unwind in this homage to a German silent film.

A living room shrinks only to expand again in this morphing animation with skilful line work. A forensic study of a private space.

Widescreen film format CinemaScope not as a window on the world, but a sculpture in a subtle interplay of light and shadow, sun and trees.

True story? Myriam Jacob-Allard's grandmother was carried away by a tornado as a child. The artist tries to find out her own way.

Ulay and Abramovic draw a large bow and arrow, one holding each side. The arrowhead points at Abramovic's heart. The slightest movement could be fatal. (LIMA)

Grotesque, comic and mesmerizing at the same time. In what kind of cell is he kept and who is in control of the music? (LIMA)

The ballet Giselle reimagined as an ecofeminist thriller. Digital footage, VHS, animation and deep AI represent a newly hybridised world.

Aesthetic re-imagining of the complicated relationship triangle between China, Africa and Europe. From African sculptures to The Terminator.

In this episode of The Brenda and Glennda Show, a group of drag queens go on a trip to Trump’s Taj Mahal Hotel Casino.(VDB)

A prologue to Hong Kong's unrest, this 16mm film captures the colour, light, texture and chaos of a city before civil protest.

An experimental biography of Chung-I, one half of a once-conjoined twin, whose body is digitally scanned and cast in ceramic.

A virtual Miami street is the backdrop for a desperate selfie sermon on our hypermediatised reality and desire for immortality.

Impressively structured 'science' film links images of a thermal solar-energy plant to ideas on entropy, energy and time.

Filmmaker Jack Smith also stars in this funny short film, playing the cadaverous matron Rose Courtyard (inspired by Rose Kennedy). (Light Cone)

Spirit Matters is a silent monologue on the simultaneous perception of space and time. (Re:Voir)

A ten-year-old girl dressed as a 1920s star gives a performance while Marlene Dietrich is bombarded with egg, chocolate powder and currants. (Eye)

Captivating, danceable cumbia and potent rock make for a party. Live coding will translate the music into colourful (semi-)abstract images.

Tensions rise between rival groups of non-binary dancers in this swirling submission to the Venice Biennale.

Two people in an impassioned embrace on an ocean pier as Harvey and the Moonglows start singing 'Ten Commandments Of Love'. (LUX)

Telcosystems attempt to hack into digital film projection to open it to chaos and creativity. Will they find the cracks in the system?

Informed by Marcel Duchamp's Anemic Cinema,THORAX is an ingenious game with dazzling light, stroboscopic flickering and matching sound.

Quiet film on super-sharp 35mm in which filigree gypsophilia flowers, old love letters and cyanotypes lead to inner contemplation.

Roisz & Kovačič delve live into their AV archives. The collision between concrete and abstract images leads to a synaesthetic media meltdown.

Consequential sites from the Spanish Civil War and the film material itself are scarred. With live soundtrack by Alfredo Costa Monteiro.

Live sound recordings from the glacier and Waiho river form the sound composition. (CIRCUIT)

Enchanting micro-performance of controlled interplay between light and dark. Waldeinsamkeit intensifies your vision and challenges you to think outside the box.

A video in which we meet a Swedish woman, Mrs. Berliner-Mauer, who has entered into a marriage with the Berlin Wall. (FILMFORM)

Ghostly, 16mm footage of Fresh Kills in New York, the world's largest rubbish dump. A final portrait of Western civilisation.

Captivating, handmade flicker film in which flower petals free themselves from melting ice cubes, setting hypnotically moving roots in motion.

Dialogue between cathode-ray tubes, electrical signals and photochemical particles. Sound and light waves vibrate in overwhelming unity.

The frog and the princess. Shall he change or shall he remain as he is? What does the princess desire? (imai)

Shot on Super 8 and hand processed, the film's materiality is treated not only as a medium but also as a subject. (Vidéographe)

This audiovisual remix tries to unveil the dogma intrinsic to the tv melodrama that the world of entertainment imposes on them. (Collectif Jeune Cinéma)

After Scores are blown away from stands by wind from a strong fan in the wings as the orchestra tries to hold them. (AV-arkki)

Artist's recollection of learning English. Words, memories and images merge with artificial landscapes, as natural and unsettling as a dream.

In this tongue-twister of a tale, camera zooms break open the domestic cocoon and pull us into the world of Pokémon.

Atong Atem is a South Sudanese artist. Her work explores migrant narratives, postcolonial practices in the diaspora and identity through portraiture.