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Overview of films
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Heraclitus (Installation)
Lenny Oosterwijk | 50' | Netherlands | World premiere
A river is a symbol of eternal motion. For years, Oosterwijk has been collecting almost abstract recordings of rivers. The music by Artvark SQ adds… -
Hotel Red Shoes
Lisa Spilliaert, Clara Spilliaert | 15' | Belgium | -
A traditional Japanese song and the Tokyo love hotel ‘Red Shoes’ inspired an artist duo to create a performance video on ritualised desire. -
I Feel Love
Anna Barham | 45' | United Kingdom | -
A reading group interprets the lyrics of Donna Summer’s disco hit. A speech-recognition programme serves them up a different variation every time: a s -
If the bed were water, you could sleep on a wave
Emi Kodama | Canada | -
Take off your shoes and close the curtains in your hotel room. Imagine the city around you. It is in motion. A bedtime story will… -
The Infernal Dream of Mutt and Jeff
Zoe Beloff | 9' | USA | None
Two cartoon figures from the 1930s experience social progress and industrial management. A reflection on the eternal problem of the pressure of work. -
Model for the Apocalypse
Julien Maire | 240' | -
In this performance, a man shapes amorphous little heaps with ‘slow motion material.’ Maire distills the ‘essences’ of cinema from the medium itself, -
Mother Earth Breathing: The Garden
Sara van der Heide | 56' | Netherlands | -
The artist speaks to our biological clocks by showing a rhytmic montage of images of growth and decomposition she filmed in her garden during one… -
Narbe Berlin
Burkhard von Harder | 78' | Germany | None
Uninterrupted aerial views of the snow-covered city on a grey day in January 2009 follow the path of the Berlin wall, twenty years after it… -
Narbe Deutschland
Burkhard von Harder | 967' | Germany | European premiere
A hallucinatory, sixteen-hour flight above the zone that for decades bisected the world: the entire length of the Iron Curtain: 1,378 kilometers. -
Night Noon
Shambhavi Kaul | 11' | USA | None
Amidst desert landscapes and splendid ocean views, a dog and a parrot appear. They emphasise the cosmic rhythm of day and night. -
Pan
Anton Ginzburg | 6' | USA | None
A beautiful Islamic location with typical mosaics is the starting point for a muted investigation of the materiality of film versus video images. -
Park Lanes
Kevin Jerome Everson | 480' | USA | World premiere
With a screening time equivalent to a full day’s work, Everson turns the cinema into a factory floor. Workers are observed while performing specific t