Bright Future Short

Overview of films

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  After Images

  • Bright Future Short

  Suspended between the past and the present, apparitions inhabit empty islands and the realm between the digital and the physical.
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  Persistence of Vision

  • Bright Future Short

  Visual temptations, trompe l’oeil, a trick of the light, staring into a black hole, a stereoscopic city view, a sun that never sets: moving-image illusions.
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  Close Encounters

  • Bright Future Short

  Close encounters with a convict and an artist, fragmented bodies, a wellness consultant, an arsonist and several psychics will not leave you unmoved.
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  History Is What’s Happening

  • Bright Future Short

  History unfolding before our very eyes, in stories of lost children and citizens adrift. Social turmoil and political anxiety are countered by fiercely personal resolve.
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  DINAMO: Footprints

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  Fourteen distributors of video art and experimental film from the DINAMO network each submit a film title from their collection on the theme ‘Footprints’.
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  Origins

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  From meteor landing sites to a primeval forest, prehistoric sites call for us to reflect on how we got here.
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  The Skin Is the Film

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  Exploration of analogue, tangible film with its vulnerable surface that can be praised and cherished, but just as easily treated roughly or destroyed.
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  DINAMO: True/False

  • Bright Future Short

  Fourteen distributors of video art and experimental film from the DINAMO network each submit a film title from their collection on the theme ‘True/False’.
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  Forbidden Fruits

  • Bright Future Short

  Intense stream-of-consciousness sound poetry, monologues and dialogues where humility, grandeur, capitalism and communism meet.
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  The Fire Inside

  • Bright Future Short

  The energy of fire and its ability to destroy, seduce and enlighten. Heat emanating from bodies seeking comfort. Could fog prevent volcanic eruption?
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  Inquiring Minds

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  Merely scratching the surface, or peeling away layers to unearth the hidden and private? Domestic matters, colonial cinema, impermeable walls. No stone left unturned.
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  Odessa Crash Test (Notes on Film 09)

  • Bright Future Short

  Norbert Pfaffenbichler | 6' | Austria | None

  A stroller is subjected to a crash test on the Odessa steps, resulting in a mad,Eisenstein-esque ride.