polski
ON THE EDGE COMPETITION FROM THE BORDERLINE OF EXPERIMENT AND VIDEO-ART
7.12.2023, 18:30
Galeria Arsenał – elektrownia, ul. Elektryczna 13 (od Świętojańskiej)
admission free
Competition for the best on the edge or experimental film and video-art directed to artists (students, amateurs, independent) from Poland and worldwide
Meet the Jury ON THE EDGE Competition!
SOLILOQUIUM
director: Karolina Monwid-Olechnowicz
director of photography: Karolina Monwid-Olechnowicz
music: Szymon Orłowski
Poland, 2022, 11’
We don’t notice our own thoughts just like that, on a daily basis – they are intangible, and they melt into our ‘self’ and pretend to be its voice.
The power of attentiveness and manipulation – glimpses of the stream of consciousness.
A visual portrait of a person’s inner speech, flowing like a river of thoughts with the intention of seeking truth.
A microscopic insight into the power of human thoughts balancing on the boundary in an undefined space-time – the separate universe that is our psyche.
An alphabet of feelings, associations, fears, memories… overpowering our mind, from which we can never escape. It is up to us what direction we give them.
It is about creating a stream of consciousness and seeing where it leads.
DAS FEINE ZIRPEN EINER DUNKELZIFFER
SILENT CHIRPING OF INVISIBLE DIGTS
director: Vera Sebert
director of photography: Vera Sebert
music: Thelonious Hamel
Austria, Germany, 2023, 10’11’’
Like a single film frame, insects flash for the fraction of a second, only to immediately withdraw from the field of vision again. In between their flickering body fragments, the film shows undefinable voids. What can be seen when familiar filters of vision and the narratives associated with them are missing?
LE MAL DES ARDENTS
ARDENT OTHER
director: Alice Brygo
director of photography: Alice Brygo
music: Fatma Pneumonia, Paul Lajus
France, 2023, 16’
A stunned crowd faces a fire.
The threat has no name, a diffuse anguish spreads.
Fear needs to be conjured, fire must be turned into a sign.
ASTERIÓN
director: Francesco Montagner
director of photography: Michal Babinec
Czech Republic, Slovakia, 2022, 15’6’’
Under the burning sun, a solitary bull awaits tireless, whilst a man jumps deep into the darkest waters of his persona, in their common attempt to defeat death.
In this silent visual poem, the massive body of a bull appears on the table of a meticulous taxidermist, having died in the hot sun in the middle of a bullfighting arena. Working with the body of an untamed animal, the man is inwardly transformed and finds in the animal’s skin a way to cope with his own mortality and the transience of life.
JEAN-PAUL GROOVE: BABOON
director: Simon Breeveld
director of photography: Simon Breeveld
music: Jean-Paul Groove
Belgium, 2023, 4’52’’
Pierre, a young moustachioed man from Brussels, is wandering around his city and comes across a strange creature a little too often.
FANTOOMWIJK
director: Ravi Sandberg
directors of photography: Sjors Mosman, Ravi Sandberg
Netherlands, 2023, 14’20’’
Urgent, unsettling, and experimental work about the Tweebosbuurt in Rotterdam. The bespoken neighborhood was demolished to make way for luxury housing, forcing residents to leave their homes. By using different styles of filming like infrared and drone shots, the viewer keeps shifting between opposite perspectives – between the system and those affected by it.
„Fantoomwijk” gives voice to the evicted locals of a neighborhood that was once a bustling part of the city. A gripping short film about the human cost of urban development, representing the global issue of gentrification in big cities.
SJETI SE KAKO SAM JAHALA BIJELOG KONJA
REMEMBER HOW I USED TO RIDE A WHITE HORSE
directors: Ivana Bosnjak Volda, Thomas Johnson Volda
director of photography: Ivan Slipcevic
music: Hrvoje Niksic
Croatia, 2022, 9’57’’
A waitress goes about her daily routine serving coffee whilst having thoughts of escaping her reality. A costumer is constantly recording and listening back to the surrounding sounds of the café and is completely fixated by this task. Apathy is a condition that leads consciousness into stagnation, but do either of them realise that they are themselves examples of this condition?
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