Art Directions: sound//vision
Programme IFFR 2026
Art Directions is the space where the festival steps out of the screening room and pushes the limits of what cinema can be. At galleries and artistic spaces across Rotterdam, encounter cinema in surprising forms: immersive media, performances, live music and visual art.
Overview of films
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DIsINCARNATE (I-III)
Cinzia Nistico | 40' | Netherlands | World premiere
Cinzia Nistico presses human skin and hair into 16mm film emulsion, asking whether a trace can become a different form of life. -
Echoes Between Seeing #3
Nan Wang | 20' | Netherlands | World premiere
An audiovisual experiment combining 16mm travel footage shot in Spain and China with AI image-to-image processes. -
Pedra e Montanha
Tetsuya Maruyama | 50' | Brazil | International premiere
Multiple 35mm slide projectors are manipulated live and accompanied by music by Robert Kroos. -
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水托邦 (Hydrotopia)
Chiemi Shimada, Jamie Man | 50' | United Kingdom | World premiere
Hydrophones in a block of ice capture the disintegration of a frozen body as a projected film emerges into clarity.
