1.

Time Crystals

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Abinadi Meza

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Time Crystals is an experimental short film about images, memory, and time, as told by a not-quite-human narrator.

This synthetic narrator is remembering time through images, though it’s not clear if the memories are real, if they are fantasies, or something in-between. The narrator describes finding patterns in time, which “she” calls time crystals. We do not know if this enigmatic film is a record, a signal, or a dream.

2.

Todos os Rostos que Amo se Parecem

All the Faces I Love Look Alike

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Davi Mello, Deborah Perrotta

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A forgotten house is re-inhabited while a strange presence approaches.

3.

Concertina

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Gabriel Gonzalez Acosta

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Concertina is an interlocking narrative film that jumps between parallel realities as two sets of brothers discuss their dreams of one another. The film explores themes of ecology, family, and labor using magical realism as a narrative device to create dark, ethereal worlds that offer a glimpse into the power of the physical realm over our collective psyche. 

5.

Canción de púas

Barbed Song

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Abril Iberico

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There is a world of sounds and another of silence. Without hearing aids, silence wraps me in a blanket of spikes, and with hearing aids the noise haunts me. Where do I belong if I can partially hear?

6.

Excelentísima señora

Honorable Lady

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Ana Sol Alonso, Teresita Cherry

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Almost two years after the beginning of the last military dictatorship in Argentina, a mother writes a letter to another mother. 

7.

Yon

Call me Jonathan

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Bárbara Lago

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Faced with the discovery of videographic archive material from their childhood, Bárbara Lago reprograms their childhood’s mythology and reflects on their body traversed by affections, fictions and the passing of time. In these intimate materials, they finds a possibility of thinking about dissident sexualities, the relationship between technology and the human body, language and childhood. Mothers, fathers, children, siblings coexist in this ecosystem, assembling a fabric of affections where the different times that weave the family history circulate. Bodies grow, images change their texture, and in these metamorphoses we find ways of how childhood can be experienced freely. The images capture what cannot be named and announce the possibility of a film that also recovers the formal procedures of that filmed body. A fragmented and subjective narrative runs through Jonathan/Yon: is the body outside of social domestication. How does such a body grow in our contemporary societies? Is filming a way to generate new social utopias?

9.

Acordate, dame un beso al despertar

Remember to Kiss Me When You Wake Up

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Estyefanía Clotti

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For fifteen years, while living in the same house my mother, sisters and I, we wrote letters to each other. In this animated essay, the words of that epistolary experience dialogue with images of today’s daily life, as a way of exploring the emotional bonds between the women of my family.