Jessica Beshir
Ethiopia, Mexiko, USA
2017 | 00:07:00

At night, outside the walls of the Ethiopian city of Harar, Yussuf Mume Saleh gets together with a group of spotted hyenas. aus Versehen für Urbino eingereicht

Mike Hoolboom
Canada
2018 | 00:05:30

Film is made out of gelatin that comes from horses. They’re waiting to be slaughtered, so that pictures can be made. Many years ago we learned the language of our masters. Though we couldn’t help wondering why so few of you bothered to learn ours. Three scenes featuring horses, remembering Jacinto. The first is a daytime forest haunting that winds up at a carousel, the second a rainy street in Portugal, the finale a nighttime vigil of fire and water. A triptych in which the figure of the horse becomes a medium for meditation on its various incarnations as symbol, domesticated animal for human domination, and its abstract power as spirit.

Maïté Baillieul
Belgium
2018 | 00:15:00

Fritz wakes up on his deathbed and receives the last cleansing by his beloved Ulrich. An endless now-moment carries the ritual in which they say farewell to each other. Absorbed by the grieving process of his beloved, time passes him by and he is abruptly pulled away by another dimension over which he has no control. There is no way back.

Sorayos Prapapan
Thailand
2017 | 00:16:00

Voices of people are often neglected, just as sound in film – the audience don’t care. Two sound recordists are working on final mix of a short film. Will their sound be heard by someone?

Olivier Smolders
Belgium
2018 | 00:25:00

A man accept a janitor’s job in an old building and, locked in his room, undertakes a strange work of mourning. He discovers that, behind the walls, a system of secret corridors makes it possible to observe the tenants. But is it really the tenants he spies on ?

Sissel M. Bergh
Norway
2017 | 00:18:00

#Water /knowhowknow is a fictionalized documentary and a visual sound poem about our relationship with the ocean,- investigations based on the local situation from the Froan edging the Norwegian sea to the inner Trondheim fjord. We are all local inhabitants and global participants. The film with the sound composed by Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje, takes us through the fisheries down to the bottom of the ocean and its inhabitants, through historical flashes, boat building traditions, human vulnerability and hybris, subsea technologies and aquafarming watched by the mythical figurine "Guri Kunna" of the Froan sea - whom represent the forces of the oceans and the ancient knowledge of how to live with the sea. This is the first chapter in the short film series Knowhowknow investigating human relationship to its surroundings. The original title #Tjaetsie is water in the south Sami language.

Annelore Schneider, Claude Piguet
Switzerland
2017 | 00:12:20

The building, a former bank, holds the leading role, whilst voices of professionals with a unique perspective on the space encourage us to observe hidden details. Through their eyes, we explore how built environment can be misused, as if every building was a spatial puzzle waiting to be solved.