Festival de Cinema independant de Barcelona ALTERNATIVA, Spain
Selection of experimental, feature and documentary films

Lluís Escartin
Spain
2002 / DV / 0:17:30 / VOAST

Visual haiku of the everyday petit cataclysm, accompanied with words of an outcast talking about ancient values which were apparently exterminated by capitalism.

Matt Hulse et Sam Dore
Scotland
2004 / DV / 0:04:00 / VO

A fresh version of the Sex Pistols’ classic of 1977, shot in British Sign Language (BSL), and timed to coincide with the queen’s jubilee (50 years on the throne). Silence is golden?

Asier Altuna
Spain
2002 / 35 mm / 0:00:00 / sans dialogue

The men of a small village form a circle in the middle of the plaza. Inside the circle two sheep fight….

Carl Stevenson
Great Britain
2003 / Beta SP / 0:06:11 / sans dialogue

A world in an indefinite future animated by mutated living beings.

Hanna Nordholt et Fritz Steingrobe
Germany
2003 / 16 mm / 0:14:30 / VOSTA

"I think a person, a curious person, an amateur with no notion of the historical facts of the matters depicted on many of these pages...would get a lively shock.’ Charles Baudelaire, 1857, in reference to sketches and drawings by Goya.

Laurent Achard
France
2004 / 16 mm / 0:09:00 / VO

A country house on a day in November: in a corner of the garden, a child awaits in silence.

Cao Guimaraes
Brazil
2004 / Super 8 / DV / 0:05:00 / sans dialogue

From the window of my room I saw, under rain and on the sand, a loving fight between two children.

Luiso Berdejo y Jorge C. Dorado
Spain
2005 / 35 mm / 0:10:00 / VOA

A joung boy tries to protect his baby sister and himself facing a searching soldier.