Transitions Film Festival

Experimental Shorts

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7 films in package
Vestiges Filmmaker introduction
Vestiges (an archipelago)
Composed as a typology of islands, Vestiges (an archipelago) is a video essay that investigates humans’ insatiable demand for sand, the most extracted natural resource after water. A poetic narrative maze where colonialism, dredging machines or land reclamation projects emerge. A story of how sand is entangled in a global machine that has been named progress, constantly shaping how landscapes, natural resources or geo-political values are being assembled.
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Elementa
Ice, fire, earth, air and æther collide in this artistic, environmental and global feature which demands the viewer manifest their individual narrative, visually guided by compelling cinematography from our wildest lands.
Rewilding Honeybees
Rewilding Honeybees analyzes the human-nature relationship by presenting a fundamentally new approach to interacting with the natural world through the lens of the honeybee. It intends to change the way people see our role in ‘saving the bees’ and cultivating a more sustainable environment, through shifting our perspectives of what beekeeping actually means
Solar Echoes
The sun is reflected in an Andalusian thermo-solar power plant whose architecture reminds us of ancient alchemical engravings, like a sacred temple of the 21st century. From its radiance come the voices of an antimatter physicist and an ecofeminist evoking their reflections on collapse, time and energy.
Forever
A life insurance company uses an AI algorithm to determine the risk of a new applicant. The subsequent denial sparks a period of introspection for the individual in quest
Closed captions available
#Imaginefor1Minute
A tiny film with a big idea: to ask viewers across the world to take a minute to visualise the better future we could have, and then to talk about it.
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Vestiges (an archipelago)

40 minutes | Austria, Australia | 2020


Composed as a typology of islands, Vestiges (an archipelago) is a video essay that investigates humans’ insatiable demand for sand, the most extracted natural resource after water. A poetic narrative maze where colonialism, dredging machines or land reclamation projects emerge. A story of how sand is entangled in a global machine that has been named progress, constantly shaping how landscapes, natural resources or geo-political values are being assembled.


AWARDS


2020 Planeta GZ Award for Best Galician Film (Curtocircuíto Film Festival); 2020 CREA Award for Best Film Direction (Galician Association of Professionals of Direction and Production + Curtocircuíto Film Festival); 2020 Special Mention (this human world Film Festival)

  • Year
    2020
  • Runtime
    40 minutes
  • Country
    Austria, Australia
  • Premiere
    Australian
  • Rating
    This film has been exempt from classification and has no age restrictions
  • Director
    Enar de Dios Rodríguez
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