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An announced tragedy. In January 2021, the world’s lungs lacked oxygen. In Manaus, capital of Amazonas, dozens of people, including newborns, died in public hospitals due to lack of oxygen. The lack of oxygen also affected the state of Pará…
The organic is constantly changing, as it is controlled, manipulated, reprogrammed and destroyed in an inevitable cycle. Moisés Pantolfi (BR) Nelson Simplício (BR) Filmmaker and community educator in Guarulhos, a city in the state of São Paulo. Undergraduate student in…
On Becoming Rarer is a commentary on life, death and temporality, as seen from the viewpoint of someone with stage 4 cancer. The tag line, ‘Can Anyone Not Come Ever Rarer?’ is an acronym – C.A.N.C.E.R. – as well as…
It is the posthuman or transhuman view of life and death. It presents a reflection on the fine line between life and death and its phases, where life (+) and death (x), the active +, the inactive x, pass side…
The struggle of a man who efforts to keep up with technological age. Batukan Ceyran (TR) Born in Adana province of Turkey in 1990, Batukan Ceyran graduated from Canakkale 18 Mart University’s Motion Pictures and Television Department in 2013. He…
This project was born from an error, a mistake in the interpretation of the etymology of the word “Museum”. While drawing for an exhibition in Rome, I observed Rome as a great museum. I was misled by the term starting…
SHOW ME YOUR HATE by BRIXTON is a video collage that expropriates and redefines the discourse of US capitalist propaganda during the cold war. By disassembling and juxtaposing the subtexts of the “American dream” are revealed, challenging this imaginary so…
A trip to nature, seeking knowledge and connection with Mother Earth. An experimental film shot in super 8 mm (single shot). Mateus Almeida (BR) Mateus Almeida is a filmmaker, photographer, super-artist, performer, tattoo artist, VJ and currently has a collaborative…
An experimental study exploring mental disorder commonly experienced with thehuman condition. Attempting to mediate emotive concepts in an intentional repetitivemanner to replicate certain patterns experienced in life. Hoping to create a simplevisual metaphor contemplating alienation, grief, depression, isolation, loss, mania,mortality,…
The voiceover is reading a letter that he never writes down, covering the topic of memory and death, time and space, border issues, culture and language, lost and found. I discusses the dialectical relationship between presence and absence by introducing…
This piece revolves around the support from mother to daughter and daughter to mother, with the participation of real mother and daughter Béatrice and Jasmine Morand. The camera dances with the characters to reveal the moments of contact and mutual…
A young woman, Thyra, lies in her bed at night recalling memories of past meetings with men while feeling in an erotic mood. In these past experiences she is a dominator as much as she experiences being dominated through sexual…