Selection #1

Caring

67 mins

A program shaped around gestures of giving. Here, care emerges through physical acts, everyday rituals, and analog processes: touching and releasing, holding and sharing, recalling and offering. These films trace a poetics of devotion through both presence and distance—as acts of tending to the other, as analogies where embraces linger and memory pulses through matter. A visual offering of interdependence, vulnerability, and quiet resistance.

– G.B.

TICKETS

Thu 22 May

21:00 - 22:30 / ACUD KINO

Anna Marziano
FARSI SEME

Italy, 2024, 10’ 00”, 16mm, DCP, silent, European Premiere

Arms stretched out like branches. A needle finds the vein: the red fluid runs from one being to another, expressing our fundamental interdependence, through the gesture of blood donation. In a continuous visual flow, the use of camera panning becomes a sensitive form of relational transcendence, where blood evokes both the generative and the destructive dimensions of life; facing its excessive power, we are left to experiment with alliances, resonating with everything that's alive.
– A.M.

Eva Giolo
SILENT CONVERSATIONS

Belgium, 2024, 07’ 34”, 16mm, DCP, silent, German Premiere

Hand-processed and self-printed 16mm reversal and negative colour films, Silent Conversations is a study of twenty-second sequences of embraces that unfold as a series of time-based portraits.

Adrien Charmot
THE HOUSE BY THE RIVER
France, 2023, 42’ 00”, 16mm, DCP, sound, German Premiere

The house by the river is a refuge, a family haven. Time is taken here for consolation. Here, I too am welcomed as a son. Through the day-to-day routine of working the land, setting tables and body care, I am telling a story of devotion to others and the sweetness of being together.

Melissa Dullius
FEBRUARY ANSWERS
Germany, Brazil, Finland, USA, 2024, 7’ 40”, 16mm, DCP, sound

Sometimes we have to get to the other side first to understand what we've really been through.

Caring

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