Selection #3

Household Tales

50mins

A gathering of flickers of the domestic and the mythic, where memory drifts through households and stones—traces of both personal and collective acts of forgetting and remembering. Light reveals and conceals like a soft wind, fading in and out of consciousness, as intimacy unfolds, paradoxically, into vast cosmic spaces. Film lingers on the threshold between visibility and invisibility, like children’s fairy tales passed hand to hand—becoming remains of memory, fossils dissolving in fragments, sparks of fire and ash.

– G.B.

TICKETS

Sat 24 May

19:00 - 20:40 / ACUD KINO

Park Kyujae
BUSEOK

South Korea, 2024, 18’ 00”, 16mm, DCP, silent, European Premiere

A man searches for memories of his family's past, alternating between Geomeunyeo, Buseok Temple, and his grandmother's house, all of which are located along a straight line on the map. Geomeunyeo is a rock located in the reclaimed area of Buseok, Seosan, South Korea. It was originally a reef that was exposed above sea level, but is now above ground. The name of Buseok, which means floating rock, is said to be derived from Geomeunyeo.

Maximilien Luc Proctor
SEASONAL CONCERNS

Germany, USA, 2024, 3’ 02”, 16mm, silent, Berlin Premiere

A triple exposure on EXR 50D 16mm film: two layers shot in summer, and the third captured on the cusp of winter. A collection of statues fading in and out of consciousness, around the Weissensee lake in northeast Berlin, where the filmmaker lived for 6 years.

Erica Sheu
IT FOLLOWS IT PASSES ON
Taiwan, USA, 2024, 4’ 53”, 16mm, DCP, sound, German Premiere

Incense yields a little light and leads the way for the islanders to hide from bombing. Broken dishes time travel. Imaginations of a post-war island, Kinmen, from familial anecdotes. Tracing the roots of cross-generational sentiments behind the glare of glasses, the display of a self-made museum. Lights reveal and conceal the stories.

Ann Carolin Renninger
THE WIND IS TAKING THEM
Germany, 2023, 25’ 00”, Super 8, 16mm, DCP, sound, Berlin Premiere

Rovin lives on a farm on the countryside at the Baltic Sea. In his very own rhythm he is occupied exploring his environment. Moss, fire and his great curiosity: discovering new planets, stars, unknown beings – the universe. Maria is taking care of the stones at the beach very close to her house, while Christopher is busy moving stones up on a little hill. All of them in search for something.

Household Tales

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