PROGRAM/5
»Four Enchantments«
41 min / 21st May / ACUD Cinema
19:55-20:35h
Four films traversing time and space. Enchanted by myths, enigmas, folklore, premodern and hidden spheres. The Earth’s internal fires, ruins, swamp warfares, caves and volcanos, mythological creatures intertwined with glimpses of a colonialist past. Visual tropes interacting with the defamiliarizing capacities of film and the quasi-mystical, revelatory powers of the analogue image.
Three Enchantments
Jon Lazam
12 min / 2016 / Philippines / Berlin premiere
Drawing largely from popular folklore and a travel account of a foreigner in the Philippines from the early 1900s, Three Enchantments imagines people “growing and dying in dull routine” and the spells they have fallen under.
(We recommend this insightful critic »A Critique of the Archive through Pastiche and Defamiliarization« by Jill J. Tan: http://jilljtan.com/post/153080748394/forthcoming-work-in-film-criticism-collective)
Burning mountains that spew flame
Samuel M. Delgado & Helena Girón
14 min / 2016 / Spain / German premiere
The interior of the earth became a refuge from the threat that moved closer and closer to the island. The volcanic tubes served as communication vessels between time and space. This was where they experimented their resistance.
quatic menac
Susu Laroche
3 min / 2015 / UK / International premiere
»MEMPHIS, EQUINOX 1066. THIS IS ALL GOING TO END IN TEARS.
DOUBLE AGENTS OF SWAMP WARFARE MEET OFFSHORE TO AVOID ESPIONAGE. A SPECIES OF TERROR, CIVIL WAR IN THE SWAMP, FEUDALISM WITHOUT CRUSADE. SOUND BY SCHTINTER.»
Baba Dana Talks To The Wolves
Ralitsa Doncheva
11 min / 2016 / Bulgaria, Canada / German premiere
Baba Dana Talks To The Wolves is an impressionistic portrait of Baba Dana, an 85 year-old Bulgarian woman who has chosen to spend her life in the mountains, away from people and cities.