Ex Voto: Mapping the Heart
Overview of films
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2 Pasolini
Andrei Ujica | 12' | France | International premiere
Made to mark a Desert-show at the Fondation Cartier, a found-footage meditation on Pasolini’s II Vangelo Secondo Matteo. -
Achterover
Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven | 6' | Belgium | -
A colourful analysis of a simple image. A passionately reclining woman: total surrender or total control. -
The Adventure Parade
Kerry Laitala | 6' | USA | International premiere
The inherent violence that is intimated at in this hand-processed film can only offer a clue of past interventions. -
Anatomy of Melancholy
Jo Ann Kaplan | 10' | United Kingdom | International premiere
Accompanying images of the human body we hear the words of Keats’ ‘Ode on Melancholy’. A cinematic meditation on mortality. -
Appearances
Barbara Meter | 22' | Netherlands | -
Unknown people gazing out of the photograph or caught unawares. Static, yet in motion, these portraits seem to be between life and death. -
Arbor Vitae
Nathaniel Dorsky | 28' | USA | European premiere
Film shows insight into the metaphysical coherence of life, gives existence a soul like the tree of life. -
Automatic Writing
Fred Worden, Ann Marie Fleming | 11' | USA | International premiere
Trying out a surrealist practice to negotiate the mysterious zone where light and absence of light come together in a productive form of instability. -
Awake but Dreaming
Kerry Laitala | 8' | USA | -
Shot in the Hirschgang Oberer, an extended curved hallway at the Akademie Schloss Solitude, like an endless cycle. -
Bienvenue
Jennifer Debauche | 5' | Belgium | -
A film like a rite of passage, restlessly exploring the interior of a haunted house. -
Blinded by Light
Simon Pummell | 7' | United Kingdom | -
The story of a man’s struggle to learn to see. A dramatic monologue of someone who lost his sight at the age of ten months. -
Blitze
Dietmar Brehm | 7' | Austria | -
Possibly a family scene, with father, mother and child, continuously interrupted by lightning flashes and a disquieting silence. -
