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Overview of films

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  The Spirit of Enquiry

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  Simon Norfolk | United Kingdom | -

  A series of mandala-like images depicting the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the largest gathering of knowledge in the history of mankind, larger even
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  Spyder

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  Ishibashi Kiyomi | 115' | Japan | World premiere

  A portrait of a young woman with a vagabond soul. She experiences various levels of reality, between heaven and hell, ecstasy and horror, discovering
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  Standard Gauge

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  Morgan Fisher | 35' | USA | -

  A reservoir of forgotten film material forms a metaphorical biography of the film history and a partial autobiography of Fisher himself.
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  Staubkaskade

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  Stefan Pautze | 4' | Germany | None

  Fractals provide the mathematical tool set to describe complex structures. Dust is the mathematical description for a set of non-connected points.

• Super Size Shorts

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  A selection of shorts of Size Matters, in a single screening on the biggest festival screen.
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  The Surging Sea of Humanity

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  Ken Jacobs | 11' | USA | -

  A stereograph of the crowd at the opening of the US Centennial Exposition of 1893 turns into a movie, into an enormous rugged 3-D landscape.
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  Sync Up Element

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  Stom Sogo | 23' | Japan | None

  An incantatory and self-combustible mix of images, as seen while having epileptic seizures. By an erratic master of low tech DIY video.
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  They Shine

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  Rosa Barba | 4' | Netherlands | None

  The Mojave desert. Endless rows of solar mirrors slowly revolve, reflecting their surroundings. A voice recounts local stories.
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  Three Blueprints (Anicca, Dukkha, Anatta)

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  Thomas Mohr | 4' | Netherlands | World premiere

  266144 photos are extremely compressed in clusters again and again to almost unimaginable nano-dimensions; then filtered to their last essence.

• Three Screen Ray

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  Bruce Conner | 5' | USA | -
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  Tom, Tom, the Piper’s Son

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  Ken Jacobs | 115' | USA | None

  Jacobs’s camera closes in on a 1905 film to better ascertain the infinite richness, searching out incongruities, delighting in the whole bizarre human
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  Two Times 4’33”

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  Manon de Boer | 10' | Belgium | None

  Based on John Cage’s composition 4’33” (1952), the artist filmed two performances of the same piece to explore the impact on the viewer.