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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Spectrum Shorts

Overview of films

  • Circle in the Sand

    Michael Robinson | 47' | USA | International premiere

    In a broken near future, vagabonds amble across a war-torn territory, rummaging, stuttering and smashing through the leftovers of Western culture.
  • Cities of Gold and Mirrors

    Cyprien Gaillard | 9' | Germany | None

    The temporary and the eternal are unified in this epic five-part film by one of the world’s hippest artists. A culture in decline.
  • The Citizens

    Kevin Jerome Everson | 6' | USA | International premiere

    A new chapter in Kevin Jerome Everson’s oeuvre, which focuses on the life of Afro-Americans. This time he looks at the role of the media.
  • City of Progress

    Justin Bennett | 11' | Netherlands | None

    This animation shows how a city grows organically from a small dot to a complicated system of lines and forms in which our desire for…
  • Clay

    Naomi Uman | 15' | Ukraine | World premiere

  • Close Quarters

    Jim Jennings | 10' | USA | None

    Close Quarters was made in a Queens apartment. (Jim Jennings)
  • Close Your Eyes

    13' | Austria | World premiere

    The abstract Close Your Eyes was inspired by the mescaline experiments of Henri Michaux and explores the boundary between perception and imagination.
  • The Cloud of Unknowing

    Ho Tzu Nyen | 28' | Singapore | None

    Eight inhabitants of a dilapidated tower block have a spiritual encounter with a cloud. More easy to understand through the senses than rationally.
  • Cobra Mist

    Emily Richardson | 7' | United Kingdom | International premiere

    Richardson casts a spell in this contemplative zone of the unknown. ‘This is land-escape-art. Existential, visceral and elemental.’ (Andrew Kötting)
  • Coda

    Naomi Uman | 4' | Ukraine | World premiere

  • Cold Open

    Seamus Harahan | 10' | United Kingdom | International premiere

    Drenched in creeping damp and malaise, the visual consequence of a powerfully ‘absent-minded gaze in response to the world’.
  • Cold Tropics

    Kleber Mendonça Filho | 24' | Brazil | European premiere

    In Recife, temperatures have dropped permanently. How do the inhabitants adapt?