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Once upon a time, there was an oblong asteroid, named Brasilia, gravitating between Mars and Jupiter, discovered by a French astronomer at the end of the 19th century. Once upon a time, there was red laterite earth from which an ideal city bearing the same name was extracted in a thousand days, under the supervision of Oscar Niemeyer between 1956 and 1960, and whose refined architecture favoured triangles with opposing peaks, to capture the telluric and cosmic energies. The Brazilian capi-tal is a “cosmo-futurist” utopia become reality, which has attracted a spate of cults (masonic, spiritualist, etc.), inspired writers such as Clarice Lispector—for whom it represented “the heart of [her] dreams”—, in which the Esperanto invented by Ludwik Zamenhof is spoken, as if this abstract city, rising out of nowhere, considered itself as the new Babel of humanity. Woven together from texts, archives and encounters, A Machine to Live In is an ambitious film-essay in which Yoni Goldstein and Meredith Zielke invent a fascinating documentary cosmology on the genesis and potential futures of this city that is absolutely unique in the world. |
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SIGNS AWARD The Signs Award honors films, which treat an important subject in an original and convincing way |
"…I find it extraordinary that young men died there in a war that long ago, and then died in the same place three thousand years after that." Mistress is a video art project that began with the reading of "Wittgenstein’s Mistress", an experimental novel published in the US in 1988 after its author, David Markson, received 54 rejections from different publishers.In the process, it turned into a feature-length film. The film begins after the end of the world, the end of all living beings –humans, insects, and any creature that once crawled upon the earth. Yet this apocalypse is of no interest to us, we neither know nor care about its cause. After the end, everything remains: the knickknacks, the machines, the matches, the paintings and the books. The myths and anecdotes – these latter remain in the head of the only creature alive, a woman of a certain and uncertain age, which they inhabit together with past pain and a certain humor of her here and now. She is the mistress of the universe, “appointed the curator of all the world”. As her fingers execute stream-of-consciousness typing, the woman’s thoughts revisit the same places, people and stories time and again, remixing them in different ways with the music she hears, if only in her head. The images mix, too: the site of Troy and footage of World War II, ancient Greek columns and her own laundry, and many of the seas of the world. And very particularly, writing: writing as in the early journalistic moving images; as in the notes traced in their scores by the hands of composers like Bach or Schubert; the letters in the notes and missives of Akhmatova, Rilke, and others; lines drawn in pencil on paper in the drawings of Modignliani or Jeanne Hébuterne or on the beach with a stick..
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NIGHT AWARD |
A metaphorical narrative in which the character is left alone at his post indefinitely to ponder the existential. In his hopefulness he resorts to a mystical exploration.
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JURY AWARD |
Quantum entanglement is a physical phenomenon that occurs when a pair or group of particles is generated, interact, or share spatial proximity in a way such that the quantum state of each particle of the pair or group cannot be described independently of the state of the others, including when the particles are separated by a large distance. We are all linked whether we like it or not. Within the soundtrack, you will hear English spoken at times. However, the words spoken are not required to understand the concept.
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EDWARD SNOWDEN AWARD |
Ibn Kenyatta is in prison since 1974. In 2019 he reflects on his refusal to appear before the New York state parole board. The words resonate from his cell with images of the great migration. The invocation of a life before walls. The story takes us from Alabama, his birth place, to the New York subway where he was arrested and beaten.
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SPECIAL MENTION |
"Yulí" is a journey through the reflections of a young middle-class Colombian; who, influenced by the news media, struggles with her fears and prejudices towards a neighborhood that has a bad reputation.
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MENTION FOR THE NIGHT AWARD |
While an unprecedented cataclysm leads to the evacuation of Japan, Lyra plunges into her memories. Who was Rey, the fascinating girl she followed all across the country? Why was she obsessed with the myth of Atlantis, the civilization punished by the gods 10,000 years ago? And most importantly: why did she too suddenly disappear too?
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MENTION FOR THE NIGHT AWARD |
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