Craig Rutter
France
2018 / 0:03:08

Though the magnetic forces produced by the human body are weak, are they still capable of influencing another person's actions or moods by interacting with their magnetic forces? Are the magnetic forces produced by the human body acting in a similar vein to magnets? For example, if a South Pole/North Pole meets another similar or opposing pole, will it pull that similar magnetic force or push it away? Could it be so simple to explain why some people are attracted to certain people and not others? In the animal kingdom, some animals have an extremely heightened sense and feel for magnetic fields. If properly trained, would it be possible for humans to use these magnetic forces as animals do? We (humans) are only using a small percentage of our brain capacity, is our brain actually capable of controlling and utilising these magnetic forces if trained properly?

Baba Acci
Germany
2017 / 0:05:00

An experimental film to examine metaphysical conception of the beginning. The work embodies the philosophic and the scientific perceptions of materialization, expressed as various forms of origin. Additional to the conceptions, the scene is blended by artist’s indefinable memory represented as a white bright room and tunnel leading to a source of light. The screenplay crossovers between the reality and memory, generating a imagination unrestricted by plot and time.

Jola Kudela
Great Britain
2017 / 0:04:30

Poppy Ackroyd is a British post-classical composer. Her main instruments are the piano and the violin, but she doesn’t treat them in a classical way. She creates her pieces by sampling sounds, beats and rhythms she generates by tapping the housing and strings of her instruments. She loops and records them, successively adding further layers of sound, until a new orchestral space is achieved. She completes this by adding the clean sound of a classical piano. This process has inspired the narration of my film. The world is seen as a vibration, and everything in it is seen as rhythm and repetition. Nature pulsates, creating a transcendental pulse. Poppy, as a Demiurge, responds to the rhythm or creates it herself. Both worlds - elements of nature and the space within her instrument - coexist and filter through each other. This coexistence is reflected in the picture. Life is a journey and the strings, just like railway tracks, mark the direction. The world is enclosed in the piano, and the piano becomes the world. The world vanishes when Poppy stops playing.

Mika Rintala
Finland
2018 / 00:15:35

Movie adaptation of Claude Monet's painting Impression, Soleil Lavent from the year 1872. Director and musician Petri Hagner together with instrument builder and musician Mika Rintala have turned the winter solstice of 2017 in Finland in to a film. The film was created as an impressionistic companion piece to Monet's painting Soleil Lavent. In the film the pastel coloured shimmer above the Atlantic Ocean turns in to the greyness of Northern Europe and the hope filled sunrise of Le Havre to a never ending night of the northern hemisphere. To capture the same impressions of incompleteness and imperfection as in the painting the auteurs set themselves strict schedules and thus the footage, sounds and the soundtrack of the film were produced in just 24 hours in the 21.12.2017. The disappearing moment illustrated in the painting with the misty masts of the ships is in the film represented with animated celestial bodies, documentary glimpses of the world's new reel, appearance of darkness in to the electric field and pulsating continuum of life in the 61 latitude of Finland.