Selection #4

Sensitive Remains

80 mins

Memory and History as political traces of the Vicarious, exile-image, pendulating into intervals of factual and fictional time, look backward as into an impossible present: sensitive remains of personal and collective incidents.

G.B.

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Ignacio Tamarit, Tomás Maglione
ÉPOCA ES POCA COSA
Argentina, 2021, 03’ 00, super 8, HD, sound, German Premiere

A handheld camera empathises with urban objects that have inherited animated potential. These elements, disconnected from each other, are related through camera movement and montage, which slides through the city looking for its definitive form.

Cassandra Celestin
WATER & WALL
USA, 2021, 09’ 00, 16mm, HD, sound, German Premiere

The Dutch settler town lying beneath Manhattan’s current financial district seen through a mosaic of material remains and landscapes; an entanglement of things past and present.

Camille Pueyo
DESTIERRO
France, 2020, 03’ 18, VHS, HD, sound

A video made from VHS family movies shot by the artist’s father at his parents’ place and on Argele's beach. The voice of the Spanish grand-father sharing his experience of republican exile and civil war meets the voice of the father speaking of his own experiences of being the son of Spanish refugees. The dialogue between past and present creates a transgenerational film about the trauma of war and the intimate consequences of exile.

Ben Balcom
LOOKING BACKWARD
USA, 2022, 10’ 00, 16mm, HD, sound, International Premiere

Filmed on the former grounds of Black Mountain College, Looking Backward is a brief elegy to the legacy of a utopian collage and other impossible projects.

Noé Grenier
THE FOLLOWING IMAGES NEVER HAPPENED
France, 2022, 07’ 12, found footage, 4K, sound, World Premiere

“The following images never happened” is a found-footage film based on a 35mm trailer of the American action film TWISTER (Jan de Bont, 1996). It refers to an incident of collective hallucination of a screening that never took place: the May 22, 1996, screening at the Can-View Drive-In in southern Canada, was cancelled due to a tornado alert. The spectators who attended that night nevertheless constructed a memory of having watched the film in the middle of a storm. TWISTER, “The Following Images Never Happened” is a personal and fragmentary reconstruction of a screening that never happened.

Christophe Guérin
MAUVAIS JOUR
France, 2022, 05’ 49, found footage, 2K, sound, European Premiere

When a burglary goes wrong.

Ingel Vaikla
PAPAGALO, WHAT'S THE TIME?
Belgium, Estonia, 2022, 07’ 00, 16mm, HD, sound, Berlin premiere

The film Papagalo, What's the Time? explores the architecture of the former Yugoslavian pavilion from Brussels World Expo 1958 in its current function as Sint-Pauluscollege. The camera follows a group of kids playing at the site of the building, moving from the outdoors to the interior spaces. The film creates poetic exchange between the double life of the building: the utopian pavilion of a now non-existing country and its new life in its current function as a school building. It’s the playful f(r)iction between the past and present between the moving bodies and solid walls.

Linda Izcali Scobie
THE PENDULUM
USA, 2020, 02’ 00, found footage, 16mm, sound, European Premiere

A tendency to stay in motion.

Nataliya Ilchuk
SENSITIVE MATERIAL
Ukraine, 2021, 26’ 00, 8mm, HD, sound, German Premiere

Shot over the course of 10 years on an expired Svema, this film is about a mental trauma of a woman, who grew up in a dysfunctional family during Soviet times in Ukraine.

Sensitive Remains

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