Selection #1

Voyages and Journals

97 mins

Shaped and arbitrated by those we love, travels through histories, utopias, topographies, some real, some imagined, back and forth in time. A topos for the long tradition of Diary films, treading between descriptive and impressionistic forms.

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Thu 21 Oct

19:30 - 21.00 / ACUD STUDIO

Ralitsa Doncheva
DESERT ISLANDS
Bulgaria, Canada, 2020, 11’ 00, 16mm, digital projection, European Premiere.

A visceral journey following the filmmaker and her Bulgarian father, Desert Islands weaves together personal and collective histories, real and imaginary spaces. If one were on a desert island, what would one bring? What, precisely, would one choose? “There is no light."

Alexandra Cuesta
NOTES, IMPRINTS (ON LOVE): PART I

Ecuador, 2020, 19’ 00, 16mm, digital projection, German Premiere.

A foreign city, the filmmaker’s surroundings, daily life. An accumulation of experiential instances that describe inhabiting a post-industrial landscape, the end of a love story, and the politics of the private and the public. The camera, as a device for recording and recollection, goes beyond evoking the past to become a tool for the appearance and exorcism of specters.

Rebecca Jane Arthur
LIBERTY
Belgium, 2020, 37’ 00, super8, digital projection, German Premiere.

Stemming from a personal account of a search for liberation set in the US during the early ‘70s, Liberty: an ephemeral statute reflects upon post-’68 desires for emancipation, emigration, and education through an impressionistic memoir and portrait of the filmmaker’s mother back home in Scotland today.

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