Between memory and the digital realm, we create ghosts: of people around us and of ourselves, in long-forgotten game worlds that now lie dormant on hard drives. These ghosts haunt worlds that are slowly decaying and fading away. Human connections crumble if they are not nurtured—just like our memories and our data. The internet has claimed that it never forgets, but that's not true: it forgets very quickly. Our digital world is transient, even if we hardly want to admit it.
A view of the desktop. A text read aloud via Google Translate opens up a digital labyrinth of nested folders. Project folders lead to subfolders, images overlap, scenes appear and disappear again. While searching for order, the system threatens to collapse. Between self-staging, archival chaos, and loss of control, a cinematic essay emerges that opposes imposed order and inner overload. The paradox is that it was produced by the very system it questions.
Dance connects! Several generations dance for themselves and yet together. Each movement reveals its own attitude toward space, time, and internal and external barriers. The bodies and their gestures resonate with the sound and open up new approaches to silent acts of resistance, vitality, and becoming. A loving film miniature on 16mm, hand-developed, marked by traces and scratches from the analog process, revealing the fragility of the moment.
The suicide rate in prisons is ten times higher than in the general population. But instead of improving prison conditions, politicians are focusing on technological solutions. The film documents the training of artificial intelligence designed to predict and prevent prisoner suicides in German prisons.
Since the 1980s, twin sisters Yvonne and Susy Klos have been enriching the Munich punk scene with their electro-Dadaist performances. Their work is directed against right-wing ideologies, social brutalization, and the normalization of authoritarian thinking, and is satirical, radical, and anarchic. The film accompanies the twins for three days around the federal elections in February 2025—a moment when political alliances between the CDU and AfD provoke public outrage and protests across the country. A portrait of two artists whose view of the world is rebellious yet permeable to contradictions.
It has to be loud and fast! Young people sample and dance against the backdrop of East Germany's past. Their social media feeds are popular, widely shared, and often liked. They symbolize rebellion and youthful revolt, but what system exactly are they trying to challenge with the speed and volume of their music?
A system that is planned from start to finish is improved, scaled up, marketed, and made sustainable. We see production and reproduction and the mechanisms of modern high-rise animal husbandry.
The film presents Ho Chi Minh City's sonic legacy from traditional Vietnamese folk music to the contemporary music scene. V2X takes viewers around Saigon through the eyes of the artists that live there, experiencing the city that informs and plays canvas to their music. Beginning with traditional nhạc Dân tộc Việt Nam in its many permutations, V2X explores the converging environments shaping modern Vietnamese music from experimental at home in white-walled galleries to densely packed clubs scattered around Saigon. Along with co-curators Rắn Cạp Đuôi, Vietnam's premier experimental outfit, and a lineup consisting of a mix of HCMC's best-rising talent and audio pioneers, V2X aims to show the diversity and energy of an art scene burgeoning with talent and innovation.
"Blended Vision" is a duo-screen video. The screen on the left shows a video about Lau's experience of accompanying his father during eye surgery. As the father's vision gradually becomes disabled, he begins to rely on his daughter's eyes to see the world, and the roles of caregiver and caretaker are reversed. In the series of events from the discovery of the disease to examination, surgery, and recovery, the emotional changes between father and daughter constantly overlap and stagger, and are connected by an invisible line. The video on the right, Lau uses a camera lens to imitate the blurred vision from the eyes of her father, and returns to the places he passes by every day, the park near their home, the same teahouse, the same bus route, the same way home... to reproduce those things that are seen repeatedly in the scenery.
An archaeological excavation site becomes the scene of a struggle for context and meaning in one's own national history. How can science deal with ambiguity? How far can one go to make oneself heard? A powerfully staged chamber play.
An animated short film that shows the relationship between a girl, her grandfather, and a little bird. A series of everyday events, ranging from daily meals to car rides, demonstrate the closeness and friendship between the two. A film about love, longing, and cherished memories.
A pioneering neurosurgeon volunteers in his own experimental procedure to surgically remove the fear of death. This short has bizarre storytelling, body horror visuals and an eerie beauty that gets under your skin.
The wealthy Trashworth family's luxurious dinner party devolves into an absurdist war of gossip and vanity, completely ignoring the serious global issues their decadent lifestyle represents. A biting satiric short full of social commentary, darkly comic family issues, and a scene-stealing dog who’s just lapping up the chaos.
A man travels abroad intending to feel freedom from his mother's demands, but when he is away from home he feels the same demands from his environment.
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