SHORT FILMS
INTROSPECTIVE LEAKS FOR AN UNBEATABLE REALITY
In an overwhelmingly hyperconconscious contemporary reality, audiovisual art remains an important space of search and recollection that allows us to inquire about everything that defines our existence. This selection of 12 short films from 9 countries, proposes an introspective trip that covers issues such as memory, hope, legacy, search, fear, loneliness, duel, our relationship with information or natural-artificial duality.
Curator, Programmer:
Javier Rueda
12 SHORT FILMS
1:28:54
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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Idade Óssea – Um Filme em Sete Quadros | Growing Pains – A Film in Seven Parts
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Isabel Aboim Inglez
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Portugal | 2022
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Runtime/Duración 0:19:58
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On a hot summer afternoon, life unfolds, shadows grow and the wind blows. Two children play without noticing that time advances relentlessly, theirs, the one of the creatures, the one of the earth, and the one of the imagination. This elastic and layered time reveals itself in its traces, marks, and elements, allowing us to learn more about earth and its inhabitants. Five narrators accompany us in this excavation that is intended to be infinite, revealing time and its marks.
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El mundo que imagino
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Andrés Camilo Ardila
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Colombia | 2021
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Runtime/Duración 0:04:13
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The world I see is a reflection on the fear of social transformation produced from pandemic isolation.
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Le Voyage de Félix | The Travel of Félix
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Agathe Simon
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France | 2023
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Runtime/Duración 0:11:30
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The Travel of Félix follows the day of a visually impaired man who has just had a vision and hopes to regain his sight. It is the story of his fragile hope. The film is a dive into his subjectivity, which is documented (interviews) and amplified (shamanic journeys) during the preparation of the film.
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W E B S I T E
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La última pieza – Ensayo I | The last piece – Essay I
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Silvana Alarcón
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Peru | 2022
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Runtime/Duración 0:03:48
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Disrupt, reject, destroy, avoid: At the interrupted rhythm of the broken photographic negatives that a granddaughter has rescued from her grandfather’s hands, The last piece reconstructs the memory of an older man who has decided to leave behind his life impulses to surrender to sleep and calm. An essay on the act of joining our memories, the illusion of remembering and the freedom to forget.
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Entre dos luces | Between Two Lights
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Bruno Aroesty
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Mexico | 2022
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Runtime/Duración 0:07:38
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At an unspecified time and place, a boy and a girl wander through the countryside during their courtship. As the narrative progresses, memories of their past merge with the present.
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on the sixth night i started to dream in flamingo
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Nicole Rayburn
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Canada | 2022
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Runtime/Duración 0:01:16
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the story from when i almost became a flamingo.
i spent eight days watching them
or maybe we were watching each other
on the sixth night I started to dream in flamingo
after several nights of this I realized I had to leave.
hearing their personal disagreements & family dramas
felt private & weird that I was suddenly listening
it also caused me distress for some reason
that i was becoming flamingo or something
& the repercussions of this were rather unclear.
despite theorizing boundary transgression ad nauseum
i still wasn’t sure if i wanted to be a flamingo
but i’m still quite certain at what transpired there.
& even now I’m anxious it will happen again
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And I measure
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Céline Berger
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Germany | 2022
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Runtime/Duración 0:14:40
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„And I measure“ deals with human-centered scientific experiments, exploring the concept of measurement when applied to ourselves. Our body parts, cleaned, fixed, connected, become an inexhaustible source of data. But why do we measure? What do we feel when we measure?
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Damp Moss
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Christopher Thompson
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Not Specified | 2023
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Runtime/Duración 0:04:22
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Glittering illusions of vectorized providence attempt to emulate an inherited physical realm of diminishing significance.
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Reclamation Project No. 1
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Tyler Bohm
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United States | 2022
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Runtime/Duración 0:01:13
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Reclamation Project No. 1 is an AI-driven experimental short which explores an urban environment reverting to its natural state. The work represents both a reversion to an earlier era, and, potentially a progression through climatic upheaval into a future state where nature has reclaimed the city.
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De espaldas al futuro | Backs against the future
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Álvaro Ruiz Velasco
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Colombia | 2023
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Runtime/Duración 0:05:00
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Is a video letter, narrated in Nasa Yuwe language, sent from a very near Retrofuture, to our present.
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balaena
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Alessia Cecchet
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Italy | 2022
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Runtime/Duración 0:08:08
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A whale lies stranded on the beach, and a woman seeks closure through a simulacrum while human interlopers observe, collect, dissect and take selfies.
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