Acting
Amidst an icy dreamscape, a woman takes refuge in a black metal karaoke bar. Outside, she finds a lone penguin stranded in a tree, cut off from its colony.
Told in two semi-fictional acts, this 16mm film serves as an elegy for Europe’s last wallabies — a marsupial animal from Australia, introduced in Scotland in the 1940s. Reflecting on humanity’s enduring urge to record animals, from prehistoric cave art to early cinema, Alasdair Asmussen Doyle links the extinction of species with the evolution of image-making.
Wandering through the mechanisms of peasantry in the Cantal region, this film attempts to create a free space where the filmmaker and the peasant women engage in some kind of collaboration; the daily work of cheesemaking, the temporary labour of filmmaking and the love for both tend to form a poetic triangular relationship.
Three men, surrounded by sleeping passengers, wake up on a stationary train. When it leaves them behind in a desolate area, a journey through a graphic snowy landscape commences.
From the music of American composer Daniel Hart, Belgian filmmakers Wannes Vanspauwen and Pol De Plecker craft a story of a man struggles with his umbrella during a heavy rain storm.. This short film is part of the 2x25 Project of Film Fest Gent and the World Soundtrack Awards. The project commissioned 25 composers to compose a short piece of music, after which 25 filmmakers made short films that are the ultimate symbioses of music and cinematography, fitting completely within the DNA of the festival. The result: 25 exceptional films where the music inspired the form, narrative and texture.
A hauntological exploration of Northern Ireland’s landscapes and the remnants of its occupied past, blending together eerie archive footage and voyeuristic location shooting as a ghostly figure lingers through the shadows of a long-abandoned military fort.
A Turkish man travels West. In search for his recently deceased sister. She looks at him through cracks in her wooden coffin, while he searches her to say farewell.
