Found Footages
| Tursday|Salt Beyoğlu|16:30|
5-cent American Flag
Vito A. Rowlands
6' 15'' | 2024 | 16mm
Belgium, United States
A cryptopolitical forensic investigation of the JFK assassination through acoustic ballistics and signs embedded into 1963 5-cent American flag stamps.
Bouscueil
Thomy Laporte
9’57'' | 2023 | Digital, 8mm, Found Footag
Canada
Bouscueil. Quebec word describing the chaotic piling up of ice floes from the effect of wind, tides or currents.
Fine Grain
Muriel Paraboni
4' 20'' | 2024 | HD, 16mm
Brazil
In July 1969, man set foot on the moon for the first time. The event was broadcast live on television to more than 600 million people worldwide. Starting from digital images found on the networks, Fine Grain rehearses an oblique path: the fine grain that the astronaut reports on the lunar soil is the grain that vibrates in the visual remains of the original expedition.
The Geneva Mechanism: A Ghost Movie
Péter Lichter
5' 20'' | 2024 | Black & Whit
Hungary
The long dead ghosts of celluloid are coming back to haunt the digital space.
One of the basic mechanisms enabling the projection of films, which the audience then perceives as a sequence of moving images, is the object of representation here – through its mechanical parts and the demonstration of its operation – in a collage of images reprinted in a digital stream.
Intruders
Jan Locus
6' 05'' | 2025 | Black & White
Belgium
In an elongated pan, mountain landscapes and misty images of animals are presented in an ethereal, ghostly way. Locus uses found footage black and white photographs of UFO observations from the 1950s and 60s. The UFOs are removed from these photos to seamlessly merge the remaining landscapes. Unforeseen animal death, often reported in UFO sightings, serves as a metaphor for human influence on nature. Intruders explores the boundary between science fiction and reality, investigating themes of reverse colonization, ecology, and human environmental impact.
FLOODWOOD
Elena Wiener
11' 50'' | 2025 | Color
Belgium
FLOODWOOD is a found-footage film based on photographic material from the Adelsheim archives. The photographs were found in various places in the city: photographs of deported Jews in the old synagogue, which is now a cultural center, in the city archives and in the estates of deceased citizens, in particular a former submarine mechanic in the Second World War. Using various animation and combination techniques with an associative, almost philosophical approach, the film aims to bring the rich history of rural areas to life, making it accessible and relevant to modern audiences. These topics are still relevant today: floods, migration, wars - and somewhere in between, a carefree life takes place. Just as water shapes the structure of driftwood, archives and memory shape our understanding of home and at the same time remind us not to repeat the darker parts of history.
