Bright Future Short
Overview of films
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The Strange But Unknown Star
Henri Plaat | 8' | Netherlands | None
A ten-year-old girl dressed as a 1920s star gives a performance while Marlene Dietrich is bombarded with egg, chocolate powder and currants. (Eye) -
The Stroker
Pilvi Takala | 15' | Finland | World premiere
Takala roams the corridors of a trendy co-working space, awkwardly touching people as part of a workers’ well-being programme. -
studie voor een veldslag
Esther Urlus | 7' | Netherlands | World premiere
Thanks to a special printing technique, the film images look hand-drawn. Inspired by Late Medieval sketches of falling horses. -
Subtítulos: saber sin estudiar
Manuel Saiz | 6' | Germany | World premiere
Funny and intimate film in which a sequence of handmade subtitles translates, confirms, or denies what the only character of the film says while he’s -
Sunstone
Louis Henderson, Filipa César | 35' | France | World premiere
Critical research film in which optical technologies of military and colonial design evoke associations between seeing and understanding, light projec -
Superinca & The Galactic Green with visuals by eerieear
45' | -
Captivating, danceable cumbia and potent rock make for a party. Live coding will translate the music into colourful (semi-)abstract images. -
Suspended Island
Jane Wilson, Louise Wilson | 16' | United Kingdom | World premiere
In a moment of national reflection and anxiety, artists Jane and Louise Wilson contemplate the uncertain future of Britain. -
Swinguerra
Bárbara Wagner, Benjamin de Burca | 22' | Brazil | None
Tensions rise between rival groups of non-binary dancers in this swirling submission to the Venice Biennale. -
TÅKE
Inger Lise Hansen | 15' | Norway | None
The spectacle of fog appearing in Oslo, the Azores, Beijing and Newfoundland, beautifully captured in various film formats. -
The Ten Commandments of Love
Cordelia Swann | 4' | United Kingdom | None
Two people in an impassioned embrace on an ocean pier as Harvey and the Moonglows start singing ‘Ten Commandments Of Love’. (LUX) -
Terril
Bronte Stahl | 13' | Belgium | World premiere
Painstaking analysis of the peculiar geography of Charleroi, forever marked by the 1956 mining disaster and the ecological rebirth that followed. -
TESTFILM #1
Telcosystems | 14' | Croatia | World premiere
Telcosystems attempt to hack into digital film projection to open it to chaos and creativity. Will they find the cracks in the system?