SHORT FILMS
ARTIFICE RESISTANCE
8 short films of Colombia, Argentina, Chile, Iran, France and the United States, which critically reflect on the world, their yokes and as possible in the midst of the improbable. The conceptual axes go from the ancient but current chains of submission, to the statements of resistance from collective action and the questioning of representation mandates.
Curator, Programmer:
Raúl Vidales
8 SHORT FILMS
1:29:21
RUNTIME
We have classified some of the films with the following tags:
DEBUT | OPERA PRIMA
ACADEMIC WORK | TRABAJO ACADÉMICO
WORLD PREMIERE | ESTRENO MUNDIAL
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Ghosts in the Cloud Forest
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Karl Nussbaum
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United States | 2023
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Runtime/Duración 0:21:00
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There are Ghosts in the Cloud Forest that suck the digital data out of humans to stay alive and to stay in the realm of memory.
And there are also modern day Hungry ghosts who feed on the energy of political anger, racism and violence in our country.
In return for the data of the living, these Ghosts from the Cloud Forest provide the spirituality of nature and the beauty of biology.
This film was shot in the sacred Huangshan Mountains of China.
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W E B S I T E
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(de)Vice Grip
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Padrick Sean Ritch
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United States | 2022
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Runtime/Duración 0:03:00
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*formerly titled: Terms of Service
A short film about the “terms of service” agreements of social media applications and smart phone devices.
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Commun
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jonathan rochier
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France | 2022
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Runtime/Duración 0:08:14
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The crowd can be seen as a sum of individualities but also as an autonomous acting power with its own logic and structure. Commun is an organic, social, and sensitive experience of a mass of pins, its behavior crosses the three modalities: community, communitarianism, communion.
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Knife, Chocolate
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Hooshmand Varaei
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Iran, Islamic Republic of | 2022
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Runtime/Duración 0:15:00
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This film is about women like Mahsa Amini who are scattered not only in Iran but all over the world.
Mahsa Amini is not just the name of a person.
Mahsa Amini does not belong to only one country.
Mahsa Amini means a group of female victims who are tried in patriarchal societies for the crime of being a woman.
Mehsa Amini means a group of brave women who swim against the tide and fight for great cultural and social changes, freedom of expression, freedom of thought and gender equality.
Mahsa Amini means a group of free-thinking women who never submit to gender discrimination and humiliation by awakening the public conscience of the society.
As an independent and concerned filmmaker and activist for women’s rights, I had the duty to narrate the dark and tragic life of women like Mahsa Amini, who are imprisoned by prejudice, violence and ignorance, by making this film.
This movie is the life story of two of these women.
Women who may be your neighbors right now.
Can’t you hear them screaming?
Women looking for life and freedom!
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Bilis Negra + web www.archivosnegros.com
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MaríaPaula Díaz Carrasco
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Chile | 2022
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Runtime/Duración 0:19:02
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We enter a collective psyche through a girl, the history of cinema, insomnia, body and horror; To free these images and let them drain through different territories, allow them to fail so that they do not exercise power. The black short film expands and follows an alternative process to the film on the website www.archivosnegros.com. This space is constructed with discarded ideas and files, material that resides in the final product; as does the unconscious in the human psyche. “Bilis Negra y Archivos Negros” (Black bile and black files) is the obverse and the back of the same artifact.
The short film is recorded entirely with a cell phone, pointing to the computer screen and towards reality
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Mensaje urgente desde el sur acerca de una invasión inminente | Urgent message from the south about an upcoming invasion
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Facundo Rodriguez Alonso
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Argentina | 2022
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Runtime/Duración 0:05:05
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In a vague present, a mysterious woman’s message anticipates an imminent future.
As the empire grows, the resistance builds up.
A dystopian short film about gentrification processes in a city that could be Buenos Aires.
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Crónicas De Un Hombre Crónico
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Jorge Santiago
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Colombia | 2023
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Runtime/Duración 0:07:00
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A man of no collective importance is absorbed by the chaotic routine of a big city and by his own words.
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