Selection #4

Flesh and Bones

75mins

A sequence that moves through visceral anatomies, sliding intervals, and filmic incisions. Bodies appear cut, split, descending—between flesh, skin, and bone. Montage becomes scar, repetition becomes ritual, unfolding into a disorienting tableau: an animistic force, a consumption—brutal, uncontained, spilling like blood pigments, film dust, and stereoscopic tremors. Instability here is a haunting presence, where film as medium reveals itself as both wound and witness—a desertic and desperate self-annihilation.

– G.B.

TICKETS

Sun 25 May

18:00 - 19:40 / ACUD KINO

Carole Thibaud
TRILOGIE CARNASSIÈRE (2)

France, 2024, 14’ 00”, 16mm, sound, World Premiere

The Trilogie Carnassière is a triptych about meat. This is animals, humans, killings, always in an intimate context, in farms, following a certain tradition, with what has been transmitted and what has been lost, with joy, improvisation, chaos, but also this gravity necessarily linked to death. The first film is a weave of chicken wings, feathers, and blood. This second film is a killing of pigs, filmed in 16mm in a collective place, where we feel the strong importance of transmission and sharing. From a distance, it may appear as feverish, confused agitation, but it is on approach that you discover the precision of the gestures and precious know-how, and it becomes like a dance of boots, hands and knives. There is both this feeling of the serious, almost solemn moment, because we have killed and it must be done well, and this joy which augurs the conviviality to come, the intense pleasure of the shared meal.

Christophe Guérin
RENDEZ-VOUS

France, 2024, 5’ 26”, 35mm, found footage, DCP, sound, German Premiere

1962, one evening in Pigalle. A woman smokes on a café terrace. Later, walking through a dark, glistening alley on her way to a rendez-vous, she senses she’s being followed. A dog barks in the night.

Dianna Barrie
NUDE, DESCENDING
Australia, 2025, 10’ 00”, 16mm, sound, European Premiere

A performer descends the stairs. Direct film mattes frame glimpses of the motion. Phase-looping duplicates the glimpses into a cascade of humanity. A game played with colour separations, motion following hand scratched and painted mattes and a perpetual descending figure.

Scott Stark
TULSA
USA, 2025, 14’ 00”, DCP, sound, European Premiere

Stereo photos of 1950s-era cocktail parties are transformed into an intense visual playland.

Michael Fleming
NIGHT TRAWLER
Netherlands, USA, 2024, 19’ 47”, 35mm, found footage, DCP, sound, German Premiere

In Night Trawler we drag the nets through the dark caverns of our subconscious, diving into the world of dreams, entering gateways and discovering (un)related found images. Our minds constantly jump from one thought to another with no apparent logic as we attempt to assemble and interpret these disparate pieces.

Anna Kipervaser
NEXT HER HEART
UAE, USA, 2023, 12’ 00”, 16mm, sound, German Premiere

Eternal recurrence and wisdom undone. The end or the beginning. Who are we that we. One and the same are the shadow cast and its cause.
A hypnotic journey through the seven valleys on the way to reach the abode of the Simurgh.

Flesh and Bones

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