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Not Enough Hands
John Bergerhausen
John Bergerhausen
8' | 2024 | Digital
Germany
In the middle of the city of Cologne - rooms of fantasies and non-stop cruising for men. An immersion into the rhythm of the steamy sauna machinery. Desire in body and mind leads through dark rooms and glowing whirlpools. Seduction and crossing of boundaries until the orgasm and beyond.
Immortals
Mark Durand
Mark Durand
5’30' | 2023 | 8mm
Canada
Immortals is an experimental documentary short film shot in 8mm that explores the introspection of an artist, Bettina Szabo. The film delves into her relationship with her sense of belonging, her body, her imagination, and nature. Sometimes one must lose oneself to find oneself better, and burn everything down to start anew on a solid foundation.
Marking The Ends
Mireille Tawfik
Mireille Tawfik
18' | 2024 | HD, 16mm
Canada
Three women talk about the difficulty they have in recovering from their last breakup.
Despite
Kate Raney
11' 18'' | 2024 | Color
United States
A short experimental animation exploring the tension between the wonder of motherhood and the anxiety of illness. Through collage and fragmentation, this film reflects upon the habitats that sustain life and harbor disease.
Looking For Letine
Paul Tarragó
15' 20'' | 2024 | HD, Super 8 + pixelvision
United Kingdom
Unable to locate the grave of Letine - 19th century leader of an acrobatic cycling troupe (buried locally) - I went home and wondered.
And then I made this film.
Equal parts experimental animation, stylised domestic drama, and autobiography accompanied by reflections on mortality, filmmaking, and magic. Plus more.
Barefoot Birthdays on Unbreakable Glass
Rebecca Jane Arthur
18' 18'' | 2024 | 16mm
Belgium
In Barefoot Birthdays on Unbreakable Glass, three women – Constance, Azam, Anna – each spend a day with the filmmaker in their homes. With a succession of dynamic short takes, close-ups of actions and rituals, objects and trinkets, bookshelves and photographs, the filmmaker is revealed in her proximity to each of them who confide in her stories of art creation, immigration, and familial bonds and breaks. As the protagonists find distance from their families, they reflect on their own mother-daughter relationships: relationships cut short, relationships evolving, relationships to treasure. Each woman recalls a gift their mother gave them – a gesture of reconciliation, a keepsake to wear on the skin, a word of advice to hold onto. Following insights of independent experiences of love and loss, they unite in one space to pose and play for the filmmaker, to commemorate a new chapter of life, and to celebrate friendship.
