Couleur locale
Here, there and an escape from both. Five short films reflect on the distance between home and elsewhere and search for a language to bring the spaces and memories together.
In this combined programme
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Electrical Gaza
The Gaza Strip as a myth: isolated, timeless, almost inaccessible, extremely tense. The accompanying animation adds a fictional layer.
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An Inaccurate Distance
Bertani is a traveller of the mind, more than the body. He writes in more than 100 languages, but hardly ever leaves his home. Language is his gate
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A Simple Story, Mine, Yours and M’s
The director, who was born in Tehran during the Iran-Iraq war, works out her personal history. Painful, yet not sentimental.
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Escape Scenes
Julia Feyrer takes her sculptures for a ride across the city and lets the wind take them apart in this charming 16mm silent film.
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Here There
Elegant minimal animation feels like a summer breeze from Croatia. A simple seaside sketch book evolves into abstractions full of shifting planes a