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El Buitre

The Vulture

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Santiago Colombo Migliorero

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Around 1917 Kafka wrote a note in his diary: “Somebody pulled my clothes, but I shook him off”. Some years later, in his short story “The vulture”, fate looks inevitable and it is not possible to escape from the torment. A vulture hacks the feet of the main character, who resigned, accepts passively this inevitable destiny.

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María

Mary

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Enma Brenes

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When home alone on a dark and rainy day, Mary opens up a box that sparks a struggle between her desires, the passing of time, and her role as a housewife.

3.

Danse du ventre Vogue

Bellydance Vogue

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Hadi Moussally

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“My birthday was on the 3rd of April 2020 during lockdown, and for the first time, I celebrated it all by myself. But even if I was alone, I decided to celebrate it as if it’s the last one” The film was made during quarantine.

5.

局部失明

Localized Blindness

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Yan Wai Yin

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Constructed in the form of an eye test/observational diagnosis, Localized Blindness is an semi-autobiographical video that documents several internal monologues: What is left after the passing of an individual? It’s between me – an individual who witnessed consecutive passings; another me – an observational being who observed the changes of my accompany and the surrounding; and the other voices, all that echo the distance between the subject and the outsider. Will scientific texts ever allow imaginative expressions, in tooth brushing demonstration, for instance, or in medication guidelines? How to articulate a sense of tension without directly illustrating muscle contractions? By listening to the conditions explained by patients with different eye diseases, I listened to their descriptions towards changes in their sensitivity towards light, the progressive loss of vision, and some general misunderstandings, I then set the base tone of the diagnosis with reference to The Eyes of Clérambault, a book where Gaëtan wrote about the surgical procedures and the recovery, also about himself as first being a doctor, then a patient. Most footage was taken ages ago, among those include intimate photos, travel images, and some quotidian fragments: the sky, the roads, the landscapes, I deliberately avoid human faces, many images have been overly enlarged. This is one way for me to hoard metaphors. There were countless days where I escaped into books. Flipping through Roland Barthes’ Mourning Diary and Lee Chi Leung’s A Room Without Myself, I read about the suffering of Barthes on the same date back then in 1977/1988, that I treated text as a kind of temporary harmless anesthetic. I covered my own wounds with different portals: Io, Argos’ eyes and the peacock, the sapphire eyes of Happy Prince and the little swallow. I borrowed the lines on their loss of identity, relationship, existence, and memory by the time when their eyes were taken away. There, I sealed my images.

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Filme de Quarto

Room Film

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Raffaella Rosset

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In an emptied apartment in the center of São Paulo, a woman shares a room with a film projector and an image. Meanwhile, an infiltration threatens the apartment.

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El ente-manta

The entity of no face

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James Hagrid

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Each person had a dark side that is not usually comfortable showing to the world, it represents the most hide desires of our soul that normally we are not able to reach, the been of no face represents that oppressed desires and all that horrible feelings that could lead us to a miserable life. This short film is the second part of the project “The Grief” from the same author.

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Astro Gêmeo

Celestial Twin

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Chana de Moura

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Celestial Twin is a fictional narrative that explores the potentialities of a speculative, non-anthropocentric reality. When a new celestial body appears in the universe, a remaining post-collapse community promptly sends the scientific research group known as Cosmovisionary Women to explore it. In addition to envisioning a world “after the end of the world”, Celestial Twin seeks to highlight the delicate balance of biochemical circumstances that made possible the evolution of terrestrial life forms. Planet Earth, in this sense, is seen as a shelter against cosmic hostility. Furthermore, the narrative subtly questions the narcissistic character of many contemporary civilizations, in which the human race usually figures in the center, unquestionably.

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Ein Wesen

294 notes (directors cut)

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Julie Gaston

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294 notes – taken from an anomymous online survey where people were asked about personal fears. It shows the subjective sensation of anxiety in its different dimensions and absurd proportions. Experimental documentary. Directors Cut from ‘a cloud on fire’.

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Transparente, soy.

Transparent, I am.

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Yuri Muraoka

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In the year of 2020 when the world was forced to “change”, I wanted to confirm what changed and what did not change in me and wrote a poem “Transparent, I am.”. This film is based on it. The white mask I wore became the screen projected my past. My family are sometimes hurt and suffer, but support me who suffers from schizophrenia. Nonoho, Yuri, Nemu and Hana. The four of us live today to the fullest while looking for the answer to “Who are we?” This film is Essay Film.