SHORT FILMS
BEING EVERYTHING: IMAGE AND TIME
This journey begins in a minimal abstraction to intuit cosmic origins. We pass through a platonic cave that allows to rewrite mythologies. It continues with the contained and latent humanity in the fluctuating image of a growing baby. We enter a tunnel with windows that shows spectral details, woven by women who dialogue with their light; Then we take refuge in a patio to throw messages on petals; We circulate to the past direct to our universal familiar heart thanks to an individual ritual of light; Then we glimpse healing of absences and anxieties with poetry, and we landed in intuitions with confusing but comforting silhouettes.
Curator, Programmer:
Óscar Pico
8 SHORT FILMS
1:37:49
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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One
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Nadine Poulain
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Serbia | 2023
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Runtime/Duración 0:15:54
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The experimental film One features an annual growth ring of a tree that, being singled out and possessing a radiant glow, evokes a sense of the planetary.
In front of a pitch black backdrop, the ring appears, disappears and reappears, at times suddenly, at other times gradually. What changes is its scale and the angle it is seen in. Testing out the frontiers of perception, the flatness of the circular shape gives way to a three-dimensional object.
The minimal, yet grand imagery unfolds to a musical soundtrack of intensely high notes and an extreme bass. Otherworldly and intangible, One takes the viewer on a journey that amalgamates earthly and cosmic spheres, the real and the imaginary.
The project has been realised with the support of the Film Center Serbia and the Academic Film Center SCCC Serbia.
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El Sueño de Medusa | Medusa dreaming
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daniel santiago cortés ramírez
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Colombia | 2023
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Runtime/Duración 0:08:18
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Medusa curses the power that condemned her, proclaims a revenge that does not give up in space or time.
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Guarda Vieja 3458 timbre 3/6
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Karen Akerman, Miguel Seabra Lopes
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Portugal | 2023
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Runtime/Duración 0:12:00
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In exile, a brazilian child weaves strategies to rise.
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Ilumina-me o elimina-me
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Raquel Páez Guzmán
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Colombia | 2023
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Runtime/Duración 0:10:38
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Light, you who know everything, you join us. “Ilumina-me o elimina-me” (Illuminate-me or eliminate-me) is a encounter and misencounter with the light, from femininity, becoming in a search and game between the interior and exterior with it as a guide. The roads are revealed, crossed and turned between monologues and dialogues that flow in a ritual-oracle.
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A Message from the Last Summer
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Juyi Mao
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United States | 2021
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Runtime/Duración 0:06:49
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By raising questions regarding escapism as a way of expression and a vehicle for collective memory, it examines the mental issues of covid-19 era from the relationship among individuals, nature and cinema.
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Ritual de Luz | Light Ritual
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Jisbell Julay Contreras
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Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of | 2023
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Runtime/Duración 0:22:10
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Jisbell looks for her father Julio, in the corners of the house and videos from past trips. Memory is a return to absence that discover its place in the time and in the family.
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Esto, que llevo dentro
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Enrique Pedraza-Botero
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Colombia | 2022
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Runtime/Duración 0:07:00
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In a letter to an artist lost to suicide at age twenty-eight, a filmmaker revisits his own battle with a rare anxiety disorder, forging an intimate relationship with his mother
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