Bright Future Short
Overzicht van films
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The Machine
Marieke van der Lippe | 16' | Netherlands | World premiere
Goethe’s poem Wanderer’s Nightsong is systematically analysed. Poetry is, however, more powerful than any analysis or restructuring. -
Making a Diagonal with Music
Aura Satz | 10' | United Kingdom | World premiere
Short film about Argentine electro-acoustic composer Beatriz Ferreyra, a pioneer of musique concrète. Featuring creaking doors and more. -
Mal-Fekata
Hasabie Kidanu | 6' | USA | World premiere (festival)
Inspired by early cinema, Kidanu explores the construction of images and space using analogue film technology. Diorama with echoes of Addis Ababa. -
Man Walking
Charley Case | 3' | Belgium | None
Nothing but the feet and legs of a man are shown, inexhaustibly walking between life and death. -
Mariam Jafri vs. Maryam Jafri
Maryam Jafri | 12' | Denmark | World premiere (festival)
A humorous tale of the journey a ready-made sculpture takes down the rabbit hole of stock photo copyright and image ownership. -
The Masked Monkeys
Anja Dornieden, Juan David González Monroy | 30' | Germany | International premiere
Satirising ethnographic documentary, OJOBOCA documents the training of masked monkeys whose performances take us to where shadows, dreams and death me -
Matata
Petna Ndaliko Katondolo | 37' | Congo, Democratic Republic | World premiere (festival)
A photo shoot takes an unexpected turn, spiralling into dance-inspired dreamscapes. Matata flirts with liberation, away from the colonial gaze. -
Matkormano
Fabien Rennet, Julien Louvet | 32' | France | None
In 1968, ‘the mage’ Matkormano gets accused of being responsible for his sons’ disappearance. He proclaimed his innocence. -
Meltdown
Hildegarde Duane | 1' | USA | None
The best way to spend the last minute before the apocalypse. -
The Mesh and the Circle
Mariana Caló, Francisco Queimadela | 35' | Italy | None
Fragmentary film examines empirical thinking and the tactile; full of brilliant visualisations and analogies. A fascinating labyrinth of a film. -
The Mess
Peter Burr | 14' | USA | World premiere
Computer-animated video taking us to the threshold of a utopian labyrinth. A solitary female figure has to clean up the mess it inadvertently spawned. -
Meteorito
Mauricio Sáenz | 15' | Mexico | European premiere
Mysterious ‘bird men’ seek the place the sun rises. In rituals they balance between life and death.