ON THE EDGE Competition

ON THE EDGE Competition from the borderline of experiment and video-art

6.12.2024, 18:00
Klub FAMA, ul. Legionowa 5
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.

(92′, 16+)

ELLA SE QUEDA
SHE STAYS
director: Marinthia Gutiérrez
director of photography: Mayela Ponce
music: Amor Amezcua, Rob Coudert
Mexico 2024, 10’

Throughout a night out in downtown Tijuana, Laura waits for her destiny to arrive.

THE SUNSET SPECIAL 2
director: Nicolas Gebbe
music: Nicolas Gebbe
Germany 2024, 18’52”

This exclusive luxury cruise presents itself as the perfect holiday and family utopia. However, all artificial facades of this attractive consumer product dissolve, as a psychedelic dream world unfolds, illusions break and the crude reality beyond superficial comfort is unveiled.

LES ANIMAUX VONT MIEUX
LICK A WOUND
director: Nathan Ghali
France 2024, 24’57”

A mysterious community of animals engages in rituals in the basements of a church, sheltered from humans. These animals have chosen to live self-sufficiently in this cellar.

CRAZY LOTUS
director: Naween Noppakun
director of photography: Nawarophaat Rungphiboonsophit
music: Bora Lee
Thailand 2024, 15’

Strange things seem to be happening to the citizens chasing Good Seconds along the riverbank, as they are wandering around between infinite possibilities. The newly released Distant Heart Glasses they wear offer them an escape from reality which is as tempting as it is daunting. In a world where the lines between our urban spaces and our digital environment are continuously blurring, what is the best possible path forward, if there still is one?

GRANDMAMAUNTSISTERCAT
director: Zuza Banasińska
music: Zuza Banasińska, Constanza Castagnet, Martyna Basta, Julek Tarasiuk
Netherlands, Poland 2024, 23’

The Slavic witch figure, Baba Yaga, undergoes a transformation into a “prehistoric goddess from the time of matriarchy”. This transformation evokes multilayered reflections on reproduction and identity, seen through the eyes of a child. The child confronts binary gender roles, often turning sexist and anthropocentric images into tools of resistance against institutionalised violence.