New Acquisitions
A-Z
Ada Kaleh
Helena Wittmann,
Germany,
2018,
14'
An indeterminate location, summer. The inhabitants of a shared apartment ask themselves where they might live. They imagine countries, communities and places. Time...
An indeterminate location, summer. The inhabitants of a shared apartment ask themselves where they might live. They imagine countries, communities and places. Time...
ALGO-RHYTHM
Manu Luksch,
Senegal/United Kingdom,
2018,
13'
In marketing, data analytics is widely used to profile and micro-target consumers and to predict behavior. However, does our embrace of the convenience of machine...
In marketing, data analytics is widely used to profile and micro-target consumers and to predict behavior. However, does our embrace of the convenience of machine...
amelina
Rubén Guzmán,
Argentina,
2018,
25'
Amelina "Coca" San Martín grew up in a remote Patagonian location inside the volcanic caldera of an extinct supervolcano, rich in archaeological and...
Amelina "Coca" San Martín grew up in a remote Patagonian location inside the volcanic caldera of an extinct supervolcano, rich in archaeological and...
Brand
Jan Köster/Alexander Lahl,
Germany,
2019,
5'
When the mayor of a little village decides to take in forty refugees, a wave of dislike and hatred befalls him and his family. The short animation tells of a fight...
When the mayor of a little village decides to take in forty refugees, a wave of dislike and hatred befalls him and his family. The short animation tells of a fight...
El Corral
Alfredo Marimon/Angie Daniela López Moreno,
Columbia,
2019,
22'
Deep in the Caribbean, a fishermen community is facing dry season. The sunny afternoons force them to remain in the shade at the ‘enramada’ (a hut without walls),...
Deep in the Caribbean, a fishermen community is facing dry season. The sunny afternoons force them to remain in the shade at the ‘enramada’ (a hut without walls),...
Deconstructing Reality in the Making
Katharina Barbosa Blad,
Norway,
2018,
5'
The glance is perception.The video deals with the bias of the room, the non-synthesizable identity. Each image is a mirror into another identity, a rectilinear...
The glance is perception.The video deals with the bias of the room, the non-synthesizable identity. Each image is a mirror into another identity, a rectilinear...
Dream Delivery
Yuan Zheng,
China,
2018,
9'
An exhausted delivery man is lying on a park bench, deep asleep. In a dream he finds himself in a Shanzhai park with his fellows: they have all turned into still...
An exhausted delivery man is lying on a park bench, deep asleep. In a dream he finds himself in a Shanzhai park with his fellows: they have all turned into still...
Ei ainoastaan intohimosta
Johanna Lecklin,
Finland,
2018,
13'
The video comprises two parallel narratives. One shows two young girls playing a board game based on the 1918 conflict between the Reds and the Whites. In the...
The video comprises two parallel narratives. One shows two young girls playing a board game based on the 1918 conflict between the Reds and the Whites. In the...
Elvis: Strung Out
Mark Oliver,
Canada,
2018,
4'
Disguised as a straightforward promotional music video, an iconic 1970 performance by a messianic Elvis Presley is transformed by editing and music into a dark...
Disguised as a straightforward promotional music video, an iconic 1970 performance by a messianic Elvis Presley is transformed by editing and music into a dark...
L´Étoile de mer
Maya Schweizer,
Germany,
2019,
11'
An experimental navigation in the Mediterranean Sea, underwater shots, silent movies, the author’s own video archive and underwater shots, faded-in texts and a...
An experimental navigation in the Mediterranean Sea, underwater shots, silent movies, the author’s own video archive and underwater shots, faded-in texts and a...
Evelyn
Nina Yuen,
USA,
2019,
6'
In 'Evelyn', Yuen performs a gender reversal on a masculine tradition to explore the radical potential of fragility, and round shapes with soft edges.
In 'Evelyn', Yuen performs a gender reversal on a masculine tradition to explore the radical potential of fragility, and round shapes with soft edges.
FragMANts
Art Collective Neozoon,
Germany,
2019,
5'
The people in the video 'FragMANts' worship their consumer goods like religious cult objects. The religion venerated here is that of capitalism, which reveals...
The people in the video 'FragMANts' worship their consumer goods like religious cult objects. The religion venerated here is that of capitalism, which reveals...
Grand Hotel Establishment
Ela Mergels,
Germany,
2018,
1'
‘If you sleep with the same person twice, you are part of the establishment,’ was one saying of the ’68 generation. The established centre of society was a source...
‘If you sleep with the same person twice, you are part of the establishment,’ was one saying of the ’68 generation. The established centre of society was a source...
Heidi beim Geräuschemacher
Christian Frei,
Switzerland,
2016,
14'
Anuk Steffen plays the title role of the new Heidi film. She takes the audience to a mysterious studio, where she adds the sound to a scene from one of the first...
Anuk Steffen plays the title role of the new Heidi film. She takes the audience to a mysterious studio, where she adds the sound to a scene from one of the first...
I Got My Things and Left
Mbabazi Sharangabo Philbert Aimé,
Rwanda/Switzerland,
2018,
22'
A group of young people in Kigali meet at the home of their deceased friend for a wake. Though he died at a young age, he had led a singular life in a conformist...
A group of young people in Kigali meet at the home of their deceased friend for a wake. Though he died at a young age, he had led a singular life in a conformist...
Ice Spider
Cheryl Rondeau,
Canada,
2018,
3'
This experimental short is about the Arctic Wolf Spider, a genus of arachnid common across the North. Climate change has resulted in larger populations and...
This experimental short is about the Arctic Wolf Spider, a genus of arachnid common across the North. Climate change has resulted in larger populations and...
l'inverno
Gurli Bachmann,
Germany,
2018,
5'
A tomcat is looking for his lost friend. He thinks he can see him in the clouds and starts a cloud collection. He collects until he notices that he has been...
A tomcat is looking for his lost friend. He thinks he can see him in the clouds and starts a cloud collection. He collects until he notices that he has been...