The festival’s International Film Competition [OPEN CALL] received over 270 submissions from 40 countries worldwide, competing for awards across six different categories.

On A Clear Day You Can See the Revolution From Here excavates layers of myth, geology and technology to reveal the shifting fault lines between a government, its people and their land. The film brings into focus contemporary processes of nation building and myth-making in Kazakhstan through an expansive journey across the remnants of Soviet technological infrastructures that persist in the landscape. Shot on 16mm, the camera is drawn across the Kazakh Steppe taking in locations that include mineral mines, the Eurasian Steppe, the STS decommissioned nuclear site and the newly constructed city of Nur-Sultan.

ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE THE REVOLUTION FROM HERE

A modern tale of Kafka in Vietnam – a country in the middle of a transformation. The film feels like a piece of cultural news with daily events: a wedding, traffic congestion, a robbery, a mystical metamorphosis and a love story.

LIVE IN CLOUD-CUCKOO LAND

Bab Sebta is a series of reconstructions of situations observed in Ceuta, a Spanish enclave on Moroccan soil. This place is the scene of a traffic of manufactured goods and sold at a discount. Thousands of people work there every day.

BAB SEBTA

Bab Sebta is a series of reconstructions of situations observed in Ceuta, a Spanish enclave on Moroccan soil. This place is the scene of a traffic of manufactured goods and sold at a discount. Thousands of people work there every day.

This film was created for the project developer EuroAtlantic to promote the unbuilt project Tadao Ando Campus &amp; Tower in Düsseldorf, Germany. It includes moving image renders.

TADAO ANDO CAMPUS + TOWER

The Case of Meat explores manifold stories behind the meat industry in Argentina. Taking off from the personal narrative of Tata Moya, an ex-worker at a slaughtering facility in the Argentine pampas, this film opens the curtain on an industry socially designed to remain out of sight. Working against the common assumption of the slaughterhouse as a space designed to confine and conceal the violent encounter between butchers and cattle, the video delves into the complex cultural tales of a country known worldwide for its meat production and steak culture. What if meat isn’t separated from cattle? What if humans and animals are part of the same overarching narrative? By looking at disparate stories surrounding cattle and meat, The Case of Meat speculates about modes of kinship with other species, their role as co-workers and co-habitants of our world, and the making of a common history.

EL CASO DE LA CARNE

Dialogic Machines is an ongoing research project in which an Artificial Intelligent system (GAN) is trained as an analytical tool to understand on an objective level the nuanced ways in which we construct, draw, and represent architectural design. The pair of AI models, left and right, are in a state of continuous conversation, allowing them to both propose and respond to what they believe an architectural drawing might be – having been trained on a dataset of over 8000+ unique orthographic architectural drawings. Through this generative conversation and response to each other’s interpretations the machines begin to find differences and commonalities that they believe objectively are worthy of representation and discussion. These images rarely find common ground as fully resolved architectural drawings to the trained eye, instead allowing the machines to become the arbiters of their own understanding of architectural drawing, unbiased by a predetermined representational ideal of the architectural author. As the machines flicker between these abstract images an audio interpretive model begins to signal binary changes as to how they believe their processes are converging and diverging, signalling to the viewer an interpretation of their discourse.

DIALOGIC MACHINES

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Shortlisted Films Selection #3 R2

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