Curtain Call
Overview of films
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G. Anthony Svatek | 22' | France | International premiere
The credit crunch did not really affect island nation Tuvalu, but climate change is bringing it down all too literally now. Yet online it might… -
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Joost Rekveld | 14' | Netherlands | World premiere
A categorical accumulation of abstract patterns. Lines, colours and sounds obey an impenetrable logic. A quiet film that dares to be resolutely experi -
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Johann Lurf | 90' | Austria | None
What exactly is written in the stars? Experimental filmmaker Lurf scoured over a century of cinematic history for depictions of the heavens. Without c -
Adrift
Cath Le Couteur | 11' | Chile | European premiere
Starting with the first satellite launch in 1958, there are now millions of larger and smaller artefacts orbiting Earth. A floating museum of space ex -
AlphaGo
Greg Kohs | 90' | USA | None
When an algorithm repeatedly beats the holder of 18 international titles Lee Sedol at the board game Go, that isn’t just an anecdote for the… -
The Cognitive Era
Zoe Beloff | 3' | USA | World premiere
Our emotions are increasingly being turned into commodities, manipulated by global corporations. This hack of an IBM commercial suggests how. Screens -
Cosmorama
Hugo Deverchère | 23' | France | World premiere
This disorienting, cosmic site exploration tests our imagination by means of infrared imagery and radio-telescopic data that are turned into sound. -
A Creak in Time
Steven McInerney | 27' | United Kingdom | None
Inspired by the famous Eames film Powers of Ten, McInerney explores the boundaries of perception, from the smallest atom to the remotest corners of th -
Elegy
Paul Bush | 6' | Switzerland | None
A study of a church building in thin sections, as abstract as a CT scan. A journey back billions of years to the time the… -
Elegy
Louis Rizzo-Naudi | 8' | United Kingdom | International premiere
After 20 years of service, the spacecraft Cassini was sent crashing into Saturn on 15 September 2017. It now appeals even more to the imagination. -
L’envol
Patrick Bokanowski | 7' | France | International premiere
On the cusp of total abstraction, Bokanowski invokes an imaginary journey. An enticing visual trip that makes any questions about its destination redu -
Extrastellar Evaluations III : Entropy : 25800
Chen Yin-ju | 17' | Taiwan | International premiere
An extravagant film that appears as a message from outer space. A cryptic cocktail of thermodynamic laws, Egyptian gods and extra-stellar intelligence