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Challenging Times, New Lives

"Challenging Times, New Lives" is an abstract 3D animation that delves into the emotional complexities surrounding the burgeoning field of Artificial Superintelligence (ASI). It explores the wide spectrum of possible futures this technology could create – from utopian progress to potential decline – and the inherent uncertainty that shadows its genesis. It is a meditation on creation, responsibility, and the hopes and fears that accompany the dawn of something entirely new.

Challenging Times, New Lives

NR 2025
Jet Lag

Using rotoscope animation and the stylized aesthetic of classical airline safety brochures, the short film “Jet Lag” adapts Christopher Schaberg’s acclaimed nonfiction book "Airportness: The Nature of Flight" for the screen. Using the seemingly simple concept of ‘waiting in an airport’, the film explodes notions of not just modern air travel, but everyday life – how we struggle to get along with one another, manage our time, and use the space around us to maximum efficiency. Employing a tongue-in-cheek, almost stream-of-consciousness narration, the film playfully communicates the shifting complex emotions, anxieties, frustrations, and excitement that coincide with air travel. The tedium of waiting, the confusion of boarding, the nervousness of departure, the euphoria and relief of arrival. Beginnings and endings. At the airport.

Jet Lag

NR 2025
Thị Trấn

Thị Trấn explores a surreal and disorienting world where everyone in a small town is the same person. The first segment depicts a man who grabs a miniature version of himself from his television and places him onto a record player, where the tiny figure plays a guitar. In another scene, the same man cuts roses in a greenhouse, after cutting a couple of roses, he severs the head of a tiny version of himself. After that, a strange television segment adds to the confusion. In the last segment of the film, the man is lifted by a giant hand and placed at a table to share a fancy dinner with none other than himself, their waiter is also himself, and the meal is also a miniature version of himself.

Thị Trấn

NR 2025
Tiɣrist – Threads of Exile

Drawing inspiration from traditional weaving techniques, oral storytelling, and contemporary modes of production, Tiɣrist - The Threads of Exile invites reflection on textile as a language of resistance and a vessel of memory - a sensitive archive. This narrative is rooted in the migration of the artist’s family from Bouira, Algeria - a region known for its textile craftsmanship and pottery, where manual labor was accompanied by collective songs and poetry — to Roubaix, France, the former industrial capital of textiles. This displacement profoundly transformed their relationship to work, to others, and to belonging. It is part of a broader history: that of the rural exodus driven by the promise of urban life, where the pursuit of emancipation often intertwines with experiences of loss and uprooting. A symbolic resonance emerges as well, since Roubaix is an anagram of Bouira, differing by only one letter.

Tiɣrist – Threads of Exile

NR 2025