Marcela Alcalde
Libanon, Argentina
2017 | 00:03:00

"Audacia del tiempo" is an experimental short film based on a poem of the same name, written by its author. It is a collage of images and textures grasped by the echo of the passage of time in memory. Audacity of time, get entangled in the dream or its symptomatic equivalence ... Opprobrium of a deranged and tiny Eros: the crouching loss in the mute of waiting.

Elysa Wendi
Hongkong
2018 | 00:05:00

This is a monologue of the woman encountering an environment that is both too close and too far off with her lost love in collapsing time-space.

Jessica Bardsley
USA
2018 | 00:17:00

"When one hears about another person's physical pain, the events happening within the interior of that person's body may seem to have the remote character of some deep subterranean fact, belonging to an invisible geography that, however portentous, has no reality because it has not yet manifested on the visible surface of the earth." --Elaine Scarry, The Body in Pain This film uses Scarry's metaphor of the earth and its geology in order to explore experiences of physical and emotional pain, which can have mysterious or unexpected sources and can go unnoticed by others. Combining archival footage of earth processes with interviews of mysterious experiences of physical and emotional pain, The Making and Unmaking of the Earth turns to geology to make visible the often invisible events happening inside of people.

Francisco Carvalho
Portugal
2018 | 00:17:00

In 1783, naturalist Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira travelled to Amazonia. Centuries later, all that remains from his Philosophical Journey are the artifacts belonging the tribes he studied and the animals and plants he brought over to Portugal, evoking a distant Amazonia and an expedition that went on for nine years.

Tzu Huan Lin
Taiwan, USA
2017 | 00:18:00

Referencing French thinkers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s concept of “desiring machines,” Tzu-huan LIN questions the autonomy of desire mechanisms through video that portraying life in eternity in The Yellow Snake is Waiting. LIN cites three classic allegories of desire—Chinese Emperor Qin Shihuang’s quest for eternal life, serpent in the Garden of Eden, and Medusa’s tale—and furthermore sheds light on how to free oneself from desires based on Zhuangzi’s philosophy of the Butterfly and the Fish. Incorporating his own dreams, LIN weaves the three stories together: Emperor Qin longs for eternal life despite having absolute power; the serpent of desire is the only being that could converse with humans in the Garden of Eden; Medusa’s head turns into a machine of desire to which venomous snakes are forever anchored... The video features various forms of desire in LIN’s dreams. Zhuangzi’s pursuit of spiritual freedom is highlighted through the artist’s attempt to search himself and happiness.

Christin Turner
USA
2017 | 00:12:00

"What Happens to the Mountain" draws upon literary sources, late night radio, and ancient legends to conjure a psycho-geographic experience in a sacred landscape. A long-distance driver, a drifter, journeys from a tenuous reality into a vision of the afterlife, called forth by the spirit of the mountain.

Kieko Ikehata
Japan
2017 | 00:13:38

The main role is played by old family photographs. Illuminated by the beam of a flashlight like the objects of a treasure hunt, these pictures that are displayed pinned to a tatami mat present a strange scene. Encouraged to solve the mystery by the enigmatic developments surrounding a date that has been lost, we cannot follow this path to the “truth.” A work in which both the monologue and visuals make use of the immense power of poetry to deliver a message.