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Since the 1990s, total insect biomass has declined by 75 percent. The rapid decline affects all food chains: fish and birds can no longer find enough to eat and are becoming fewer and fewer. Studies show that neonicotinoids used in pesticides aren't just destroying the insect popualtion, but also affect human health.
Kike and Gas are two friends who buy a mysterious network extender capable of accessing the internet of the future. But everything starts to turn against them when they face an impending apocalypse.
This short-length film is an architectural and visual experiment in the creation of spatial compositions based on the suprematic paintings from the exhibition “The last futuristic exhibition of paintings 0.10”, or simply, “Zero-ten”. It was an art exhibition which took place in Petrograd within the period between December 19, 1915 and January 17, 1916. The exhibition featured 36 works by Kazimir Malevich and his associates. Through it, Suprematism was presented as a new direction. It was named after the organizers' idea to complete the futuristic period in Russian painting and to mark the beginning of Suprematism. In the red corner of the room, traditional for the icon in an Orthodox house, was placed the "Black Square".
They might not look as impressive as wolves but the little dogs of the world are just as complex and endearing. By following dog families from across the world we’ll see the similarities and differences in how they live from how they interact and defend themselves to how they find food.
About 500,000 Koreans reside in the former Soviet Union. Most of their ancestors were forced to flee during the Japanese occupation / annexation (1910-1945). The name they gave themselves is Koryo-saram. Their language, Koryo-mar, is descended from the Hamgyöng dialect (province of North Korea) and many other variants of Northeast Korean. The documentary sets up a multi-voice narrative characterized by shamanic rituals, digital glitches, voiceovers, texts and sound panoramas. At the same time inter-subjective and deeply personal, the film recounts migration, the diaspora and death with humor and lightness.
A musical, contemporary retelling of the Don Juan story only this time in a non-binary world.
Witness the first light and sounds of a new dawn breaking, as observed around the world one year ago. Patrick Shen’s cinematic meditation was created during the first COVID-19 lockdown by 35 artists from over 13 countries on May 3, 2020. With a soundtrack filled with environmental bird songs and ambient aural awakenings, the contemplative and collective portrait moves from darkness to light as a metaphor for hope and rebirth. 2020, United States, digital, nonverbal, 21 min.
The daily actions and interconnections of a neighbourhood’s inhabitants, hand-drawn into the folds of textured, off-white card, create dimensional and narrative ambiguities: a spectacle of everyday human situations.
Mariarita dancing through her dreams and Rome to find the meaning of life.
It’s a beautiful summer day and Sven is finally going to take the plunge. He’s at the public pool, at the foot of the ladder leading up to the ten-metre board. Today he is going to jump. Now! Or perhaps some chips as a start? And it would be good to take a shower first. But then he’ll be ready, though …? Oh no, the queue behind him is waiting, there’s no turning back. Sven climbs up the tower.
A short, spoken word, breaking film, reflecting the raw, visceral side of the hip hop-born dance and art form, as well as showcasing the intricate beauty and details in the way that B-Boys and B-Girls move.
Filmmaker Steven Fraser lives with prosopagnosia, otherwise known as “face blindness,” which means he can’t remember or recognize faces. In this film, he uses stop-motion animation, cassette tapes, sketchbooks, photos, and diary extracts to convey his feelings about this.
Najet, whom the doctors say that she will die soon, thus, she decides to take the rest of her life head-on, instead of giving in to self-pity.
An homage to Hans Richter for the 35th anniversary of his death in 2021.
Setting out as a point-of-view video diary of a seed becoming a colourful flower, Claire Davies' "Growing Love" reflects on the promises of relationships with plants and the adventures of speculative gardening. Handheld mobile phone shots paired with an experiential narration negotiates perceptions of beauty together with the life-giving potential of human intervention – which eventually leads to a surprising outcome.
The COVID-19 pandemic kept dancers from the Paris Opera away from their rehearsal studios and the stage for many months.
From Rome's Parco della Musica auditorium, the Orchestra and Choir of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia perform: A Tribute to the Melodramas of Bellini and Donizetti.
The relationship of two boys who have Christ as a reference figure. “To suffer is love” says the Catholic religion because Jesus died for us.
In this experimental documentary filmmaker Sobo Swobodnik explores his milieu of origin.
Over a span of 8 years, Stefano talks about his choice to undertake sex reassignment from female to male. The first steps, the interviews with a still female face and voice, i problems that arise with hormone treatment. Many challenges and many objectives, not all of which are successful. “Ste” obtains consent for interventions to change a body in which he is not she recognizes. It soon reaches great visibility. But at the end of the parable in the media he is disappointed by the LGBT world, by the fake activism, and from the attacks received on the new image he projected of himself. Finally mature, Stefano confronts his past. Across the reflection of his true identity, he has now achieved his purpose: a "normal" life.
'Azul la mancha' deals with a rare form of taking root in a place. Our Spanish hometown in Castilla-La Mancha reveals vast, barren landscapes that are part of our collective memory. The images recall this deep connection to our motherland through objects, visions and traits that channel the heart and soul of this unique space.
Commissioned for S-AIR’s 2020 residency programme, Letter from Sapporo (2021) is a collage film offering a glimpse of daily life in the Japanese city of Sapporo. The film is the product of approximately 16 participants capturing material with their smartphones. Focusing on moments of stillness, intimacy, labour and humour, disparate material is wedded into a compelling and coherent whole by Quaintance’s subtle editing, original music and vivid sound design.
A collective journal written by film school students during the CoViD-19 pandemic.
To mark the centenary of the great science fiction writer, Stanislaw Lem, we present this tribute by the legendary stop motion animators Stephen and Timothy Quay. Explore the life and impact of Stanisław Lem through an unique lens of the Quay Brothers.
The film examines a group of second-generation Black British women and their relationship with identity, feelings of cultural displacement, and their shared histories. Informed by contributions of the 1980s Black feminist movement in England and the legacies of first-generation children of African and Caribbean immigrants, the film incorporates archive, VHS and 16mm footage.
As the use of plastic has gained ground in our lives over the years, there has been an inexplicable increase in a number of diseases and disorders amongst the population. In this film as part of the Why Plastic? series, we meet leading researchers looking into the reasons for these disorders. We also follow case studies of people suffering from various health conditions thought to be caused by exposure to certain every day materials including plastic. Are these people the victims of unfortunate coincidences - or is there an explanation?
Sébastien, a butcher, had been working for twelve years when a bill to ban the trade in animal meat forced him to close his shop. Determined to continue his job, he sets out on the road with the firm intention of opening a new butcher's shop in Italy. His path, punctuated by the passions unleashed by this political decision, will help him to make his own transition.
2011 saw the largest wave of disorder in the UK since the 1980s. This revelatory film hears from the people who experienced the riots up close and personal. A decade on, we look back at the summer of 2011 through the eyes of those whose lives have never been the same since. In a series of candid interviews, we hear the story from all angles. Convicted rioters, frontline police, a judge, a government advisor and a grieving father look back at that week in August, and the years that followed, to piece together what really happened and why.
A major climatic shift, drought is taking hold in Europe. We take a closer look at this worrying phenomenon, linked to global warming and amplified by our intensive farming practices.
A comet brings water to a planet on a remote corner of the universe.
Passing through Paris, Roman, a young archaeologist, gets back to Adam, his unruly younger brother.
Sacha is a reporter. For 4 months, he traveled for 6,000 kilometers of expeditions and cooking. First on a sailboat in the Mediterranean, then hitchhiking in Morocco or on a freight train in Mauritania, he ended his journey on a motorbike in Senegal. People, places and local recipes are on the menu of this documentary.
When two Cowboys collide in a traditional standoff, both their weapons and their emotions are tested.
A short film by Álvaro Feldman
Apocalypse series such as "Fear the Walking Dead" have shown us all too distressingly that, in the face of the apocalypse, stockpiling may secure your own supplies in the short term, but in no way offers protection against the actual threat. And an end-time classic like “Contagion“ already preached ten years ago that hand hygiene and face masks are essential if a global pandemic is to be contained. In "Fiction for Future", we ask old masters of the genre such as Roland Emmerich, Terry Gilliam and Frank Schätzing what the nightmarish tales of doom tell us about the horrors of our future. How will global challenges such as climate change and pandemics change our lives? Can we master the major challenges of our future? And if so, how?
