Bright Future Short
Overview of films
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DINAMO: Footprints
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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History Is What’s Happening
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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Close Encounters
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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Persistence of Vision
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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After Images
Suspended between the past and the present, apparitions inhabit empty islands and the realm between the digital and the physical.
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Van ver staat het stil
An exchange of letters between the filmmaker and a paedophile evokes powerful emotions. But she wants to understand his motives.
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Piramide erosionada
The pyramid used to be a mountain. Wild, single-frame, free jazz film experience with rocks, stones and rampant plants that stick to your retina.
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Chopin
Staged objects, ephemera, slide projections and spoken word: the debris of a decade long research project on sound poet Henri Chopin.
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Portrait of Karl Marx as a Young God
This absurd documentary about (political) desire consists of collages and drawings with voice-over comments from a telephone speaker.
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On the Border
Ocean trash on the beach can be surprisingly captivating. Human amorality, irresponsibility and ocean waves collaborate to create these objects.
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The Tree
Meticulously edited, frame by frame, The Hare Krishna Tree comes to life, more than 40 years after the images were shot.
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KG
The spirit of contemporary Athens is captured through dance, performance and the writings of the Greek anarchist poet Katerina Gogou.