Competition: Found Footage – I

Ani_av1 (Collage18)  

Director: Luis Carlos Rodriguez
Spain, 2019, 6’, HDD, b&w
No Dialogue 

Several films at the same time intersect generating one and a thousand new stories. You will never / always see and not watch a movie. The audiovisual arts do not need the story. We became non-narrative what was done to be narrative. With the technique taken from the Fine Arts and as an audiovisual collage, we make narrative and ecological hacks on films in the public domain...

Cells and Glass  

Director: Hayashi Yuki
Japan, 2020, 9’, HDD, color
Japanese with English, Turkish subtitles  

“After discussions with researchers at CiRA, I wrote a script and produced a video piece, set in the future and based on the actual science described above.” - Hayashi Yuki

First Hypnotic Suggestion

Directors: Brittany Gravely, Kenneth Linehan 
USA, 2020, 10’, HDD, renkli / color 
No Dialogue 

First Hypnotic Suggestion conjures telepathic transference, hypnosis and collective dream space. Through its spectral tele-cinematic waves, the analogue horror-film protagonists participate in paranormal and fringe scientific experiments, attempting to comprehend the immaterial and incomprehensible expanses of their perception—simultaneously aided and obstructed by the temporal interventions and technological mediations of their transitory parallel dimension.

If the Eye Were an Animal, its Soul Would be the Sight 

Director: Marc Samper
Spain, 2021, 8’, HDD, color
No Dialogue

The visionary journey, If the eye were an animal, its soul would be the sight, is an experimental-ecstatic itinerary that superimposes images of present-day Berlin with images found on old VHS tapes. The film reflects on the way we consume images in context of the Global mass media and how these processed images seen on-screen shape our interiority.  Violence, war, consumption, and leisure are juxtaposed in a solution of continuity in which everything is diluted. 

New Mexico Deathwish Diatribe

Director: Georg Koszulinski
USA, 2020, 12’, HDD, color
No Dialogue

Three narrators converge in the deserts of New Mexico, each with a separate story to tell. One narrator is J. Robert Oppenheimer, another is a visitor from outer space, and the other is me. Our stories converge across the span of time and space into a single stream of consciousness. 

Tape Letters From the Waiting Room 

Director: Steven McInerney
UK, 2020, 18’, HDD, renkli / color
English with Turkish subtitles 

An existential drama exploring the universal themes of death and rebirth. Tape Letters from the Waiting Room is an experiment in film archaeology and magnetic memory as it navigates past life experiences. Shifting in succession from the mundane to the metaphysical, the film is composed of extant 16mm found footage from the past century. An original soundtrack by Mark Vernon encompasses a rich collection of domestic tape recordings; audio letters, dictated notes, found sounds and other lost voices.