Jason Britski
Canada
2018 | 00:04:33

"Public Domain" is a found footage project made from public domain archival material that is an exploration, and a reaction to the turbulent times we find ourselves in.

Wenhua Shi
USA
2018 | 00:05:00

"Senses of Time" depicts the lyrical and poetic passage of time. The work reflects on time and focuses on defining subjective and perceptual time with close attention to stillness, decay, disappearance, and ruins.

Pablo-Martín Cordoba
France
2017 | 00:10:19

Strengthened by the soundtrack, this animation opposes images and texts in line with the ideas of Vilém Flusser: texts and images confront one another in the representation of the real world. This dialectical relationship, whose synthesis is yet to be discovered, is matched in the video by another opposition: tribal men living in equilibrium with nature, contrasting with the divergences of technical progress. L’inter-code questions the possibilities and limits of science and its materialization in technology.

Shehrezad Maher
Pakistan, United States
2018 | 01:01:00

Originating from a prompt to two ambulance drivers in Karachi to retell recurring dreams that occur in their sleep, 'This Shaking Keeps Me Steady' explores the permeable boundaries between memory and fiction, and between lived trauma, its recollection, and its re-enactment. First responders reflect on the aftermath of violent events, while television re-enactment actors audition for, and perform the gendered roles of victim, perpetrator, and witness in scenarios ranging from the banal to tragic. Unfolding through rituals, preparations, dreams, and performance, we never see the tragic events themselves, but catch traces of the extent to which they have been internalized by a society.

Lina Sieckmann, Mirial Gossing
Germany
2017 | 00:12:40

In its unbiased observation of the coulisses and façades of a contemporary free-time phenomenon - real-life escape games - this film raises questions of surveillance, the human yearning to act out roles and the relationship between imprisonment and desire.