VIDEORAMA (85’14”)
Our Videorama section puts an accent on experimental film and video art, far too little promoted in Romania. The aim is for the public to have a chance to meet talented video artists from our country and abroad.
If the main objective of the Timishort Film Festival is to discover new film authors through its competitions, Videorama focuses on cinematographic creations, that stretch the audio-visual language beyond its current limits.
NUESTRA CANCIÓN A LA GUERRA
Juanita Onzaga, Belgium, Colombia, 2018, 14’09’’
OUR SONG TO WAR
Crocodile-men, a mystic river, some kids who like fishing, and a war, end sharing the same Colombian land: Bojaya. In this place, villagers have strange beliefs and celebrate the “Novenario” death ritual. This might be the beginning of a very long story, where spirits and humans meet each other to learn what is there to life, after the end of war.
УЛЬТРА ТЕННИС
Yuri Zhirov & Avet Oganesyan, Russia, 2017, 3’56’’
ULTRA TENNIS
“Ultra Tennis” is an intergalactic virtual sports battle of the titans. Irreconcilable rivals, side to side with their 3D-avatars, once again collided on the battlefield. How to find the strongest athlete, in the land of such skill, where the one-button player is a pro?
POLTE
Sami van Ingen, Finland, 2018, 15’
FLAME
A fractured melodrama, based on damaged frames from the last minutes of the only remaining nitrate reel of the lost feature film “Silja – nuorena nukkunut”/ “Silja – Fallen Asleep When Young” (1937), directed by Teuvo Tulio. All screening prints and the negative of the film were destroyed in a 1959 studio fire. A sequence from the middle of the film was found at “La Cinémathèque Française” in Paris, in 2015.
PATTERN LANGUAGE
Mandy Krebs, Germany, 2018, 14’15’’
PATTERN LANGUAGE
Streets. Canals. Buildings. Green spaces. In some places, edges and cracks are interrupting the miniature edition of the deserted city. A voice confronts us with the shortcomings and proposes solutions. In comparison to this is the practical implementation, in the form of new construction and reconstruction measures. The film “Pattern Language” deals with questions of urban development, on the basis of current construction projects in the city of Berlin.
HEIDIN SUUNNITTELEMA JÄÄKIEKKOELOKUVA
Hannaleena Hauru, Finland, 2017, 5’
THE ICE HOCKEY FILM BY HEIDI
Heidi’s fantasy about hockey player Lauri Mäntyvaara is continuously failing. The film studies the encounters of optical and haptic cinema, and the change in the power structures of the cinematic gaze.
LE DÉTERREMENT DE NOUS
Shirley Bruno, France, Haiti, 2017, 11’
AN EXCAVATION OF US
The shadows of Napoleon’s army fall upon a boat traveling through the mysterious cave, named after her legend, Marie Jeanne, a female soldier who fought in the Haitian Revolution. It is this battle inside her cave that will become the most successful slave revolution in history.
НА СЦЕНЕ
Vladimir Morozov, Russia, 2018, 3’54’’
ON STAGE
A person’s life is accompanied by subtle melodies coming from unknown places. Ancient philosophers described the Universe as a huge string stretched between heaven and earth, and considered all earthly music sounding in the human mind to be a weak echo of the music of heaven, resulting from frictions between rapidly rotating planets and cosmic ether. As the scientist claimed, each of these gigantic spheres, when rushing through the infinite space, creates a sound of a certain tone, caused by continuous displacement of the ethereal dust, and together they form a wonderful symphony of the world, which one can continually hear in the Universe. The music of the world accompanies all of us throughout the life, thus people tend not to perceive these melodies, just like a person who lives near the ocean stops hearing the noise of the surf. But the choir of stars is singing not for nothing, and, once in a while, its voices reach the human mind.
HOISSURU
Armand Rovira, Spain, 2017, 18’
HOISSURU
Hiroko is a Japanese girl who suffers a sharp pain inside her head caused by a specific sound frequency that only she can hear.