Silhouettes Competition 2 – Computer Love
01 Pubert Jimbob
Director(s)
Quirijn DEES
Film info
Year of production: 2024
Country of production: Belgium
Production: KASK & Conservatorium / School of Art Gent
Length: 15' 35''
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Pubert Jimbob, a young man, enters a strange reality after getting lured away from his home by an enigmatic figure, who throws him a lighter. Jimbob meets Nadine, a lump with a mouth, and helps her.
02 Data Flesh
Director(s)
Felipe ELGUETA
Film info
Year of production: 2024
Country of production: Chile
Production: Pista B
Length: 04' 41''
Synopsis
‘DATA FLESH’ is an algorithmic incantation that revives images, an essay that invokes internet archives, slaves of humanity and infinite scroll. Using generative techniques they create a future that only they can imagine.
03 Grain Cloud Atmosphere
Director(s)
Martin MOOLHUIJSEN
Film info
Year of production: 2023
Country of production: Germany
Production: Independent
Length: 06' 38''
Synopsis
Many grains make a cloud. Many clouds form an atmosphere. An exploration of the perception of time through the eyes and ears.
04 VEDRITI
Director(s)
Nikita MESCHERYAKOV
Film info
Year of production: 2023
Country of production: Russia
Production: Jupiter-XXI
Length: 11' 15''
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A woman tries to escape reality and the memories of a traumatic event while developing a video game. In this process it is getting harder to find the borders of the reality.
05 Swifts
Director(s)
Ada NAPIORKOWSKI
Film info
Year of production: 2024
Country of production: Estonia
Production: Estonian Academy of Arts
Length: 05' 01''
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Like every year, the swifts are returning to their homes in the “sleeping districts”. But this year the humans are gone, leaving nothing but spirits.
06 Microbes
Director(s)
Matze GÖRIG
Film info
Year of production: 2024
Country of production: Germany
Production: S27 art and education
Length: 17' 47''
Synopsis
'Les microbes' is based on the stories of some of the crew members that were told during the filmmaking process and reflects on their situation in an experimental way. They had to flee their homes due to poverty, war and prosecution.
07 Glass House
Director(s)
Boris LABBÉ
Film info
Year of production: 2024
Country of production: France
Production: Independent
Length: 05' 16''
Synopsis
‘Glass House’ is a video-sonic work, a disruptive immersive experience. It's the glass Tower of Babel, a kaleidoscope with hypnotic beauty. It's a sensation, mixed with attraction and repulsion, borrowed from science fiction novels.
08 The Sunset Special 2
Director(s)
Nicolas GEBBE
Film info
Year of production: 2024
Country of production: Germany
Production: Square Eyes
Length: 18' 51''
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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 nightmare unfolds, illusions break and the crude reality beyond superficial comfort is unveiled.