Bright Future Short
Overview of films
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Printed Sunset
Andrés Baron | 6' | France | None
The Hollywood trope of a couple gazing at a romantic sunset, deconstructed and transformed into a novel beauty. -
Private Properties
Lilli Carré | 3' | USA | World premiere
A living room shrinks only to expand again in this morphing animation with skilful line work. A forensic study of a private space. -
A Proposal to project in Scope
Viktoria Schmid | 8' | Austria | World premiere
Widescreen film format CinemaScope not as a window on the world, but a sculpture in a subtle interplay of light and shadow, sun and trees. -
The Protagonists
Gabi Dao | 8' | Canada | World premiere
Dao makes a plea for ‘Domestic Cinema’: plants, a metronome, a clumsy animatronic hand and colorful smoke bombs become characters in her film. -
Psychic
Tova Mozard | 20' | Sweden | World premiere
Psychic dives into the commonplace phenomenon of psychics in the Hollywood area. Littered around town, they function as a type of low-budget therapy. -
PTKHO
Mahine Rouhi | 7' | France | None
Escaped from a dream close to the ground, the phenomena of sound poetry retreat farther and farther until they vanish. -
Pure Difference
Byron Peters | 22' | Canada | World premiere
Pure Difference asks its viewers “What is a number?”. It deals with the inclination to rely on data as truth, reassurance, neutrality and security.&nb -
Les quatre récits d’Alice
Myriam Jacob-Allard | 5' | Canada | World premiere (festival)
True story? Myriam Jacob-Allard’s grandmother was carried away by a tornado as a child. The artist tries to find out her own way. -
Radio at Night
James Richards | 8' | Germany | None
An assemblage of distorting and looping audiovisual material, including industrial documentation, medical imaging, news broadcasts, birds and fish. -
The Radio Wave of Blood Beneath the Dirt Ice and Flowers
Sandy Ding | 10' | China | None
An alchemical process of elevation becoming a worship of energy. Dirt, ice, liquids, flowers and the shape of blood are the words in this poem.… -
Re-rupture
Hsu Che-yu | 15' | Taiwan | European premiere
Artist Hsu Che-yu unearths and reanimates forgotten moments in Taipei’s history, one of which includes a guitar solo eight storeys up in the air. -
Remedies – Rongoã
Sasha Huber, Petri Saarikko | 6' | Finland | European premiere
Huber and Saarikko were inspired by the traditions of various healing methods and the Maori culture, but also by the imminent threat of nature. (AV-ar