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In addition to the longer features, there are also a number of short showcases (indicated after the film in italics)
- Communicating Contact
- Entangled Experience
- Politics Of Place
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Vulture and Past Perfect
Altiplano
(Country: Chile, Argentina, Canada; Year: 2018; Director: Malena Szlam), Trailer
UK premiere. Communicating Contact
Filmed in the Andean Mountains in the traditional lands of the Atacameño, Aymara, and Calchaquí-Diaguita in Northern Chile and Northwest Argentina, this short takes place within a geological universe of ancestral salt flats, volcanic deserts, and coloured lakes.
Body All Eyes
(Country: Finland; Year: 2018; Director: Saara Ekström)
Scottish premiere. Entangled Experience
This 8mm split-screen film explores the symmetry in the shapes that take flight and the bodies that remain.
Churubusco Inventory
(Country: Mexico; Year: 2019; Director: Elena Pardo)
UK premiere. Communicating Contact
The legendary lab of Churubusco Studios in Mexico City comes back to life in stop-motion animation.
Epoch
(Country: Ireland; Year: 2018; Director: Kevin McLoughlin)
Politics Of Place
Animation of eye-in-the-sky commonality.
Home In E Major
(Country: US; Year: 2019; Director: Tamar Rachkovsky; Stars: Elisabeth Jezierski, Tamar Rachkovsky, Li Zhen, Stuart Barr, Vera Gutkina)
Documentary about the filmmaker's own move from Jerusalem to Durham, North Carolina.
Body All Eyes and Home In E Major
It Has To Be Lived Once And Dreamed Twice
(Country: Austria, Germany; Year: 2019; Director: Rainer Kohlberger; Writer: Rainer Kohlberger; Stars: Annika Henderson, Annika Henderson)
UK premiere. Politics Of Place
Emerging from the debris of static and fractal noise, an emotionless overseer conveys the story of the sixth extinction from their post-human vantage point.
It Matters What
(Country: Canada; Year: 2018; Director: Francisca Duran)
UK premiere. Entangled Experience
A textual and textural filmic manifesto combining extracts from Donna Haraway’s essay ‘Tentacular Thinking: Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Chthulucene’ with in-camera animation.
Kleep Toowit, Klip Klip, Too-ow-wit
(Country: UK; Year: 2018; Director: Maria Anastassiou)
Scottish premiere. Politics Of Place
Birdwatching provides a critical space for thinking about marginal landscapes and shared spaces.
Las Breas
(Country: US; Year: 2019; Director: Laura Kraning, Blue Kraning)
International premiere. Politics Of Place
An observational portrait of three tar pits, of which there are only six in the world.
Lumen
(Country: UK; Year: 2018; Director: Richard Ashrowan)
UK premiere. Communicating Contact
A silent exploration of light and gesture, finding the light, losing it, moments of exploration, hesitation and connection.
Mensch Maschine Or Putting Parts Together
(Country: Austria; Year: 2018; Director: Adina Camhy)
UK premiere. Communicating Contact
A playful take on gendered technology and the mechanisation of society.
Not (A) Part
(Country: UK; Year: 2019; Director: Vicky Smith)
Scottish premiere. Entangled Experience
Dead bee parts found on walks around South West England are assembled and contact printed directly onto 16mm film, creating reanimated on-screen bodies.
Past Perfect
(Country: Portugal; Year: 2019; Director: Jorge Jácome; Writer: Jorge Jácome, Pedro Penim)
Scottish premiere. Politics Of Place
Consideration of the political implications of nostalgia.
Philately
(Country: US; Year: 2018; Director: Pam Minty)
International premiere. Communicating Contact
A keenly perceived macro-photographic study of the dot-print artwork of postage stamps.
Porquerolles
(Country: France, Belgium, UK; Year: 2019; Director: Nicky Hamlyn)
UK premiere. Entangled Experience
Structural filmmaking exploring multiple framings of six stone blocks that lie in a field in the south of France.
Pwdre Ser: The Rot Of Stars
(Country: US; Year: 2018; Director: Charlotte Pryce)
UK premiere. Entangled Experience
Pwdre ser is the Welsh name for the mythical substance star jelly, which has been observed since the 1400s. The film depicts an encounter with a mysterious, luminous, electrical substance.
Sir Bailey
(Country: Canada; Year: 2018; Director: Matthew Ripplinger)
UK premiere. Entangled Experience
A portrait of the filmmaker's old friend suffering from bone cancer.
Starts Wednesday
(Country: UK; Year: 2018; Director: David Leister)
International premiere. Communicating Contact
Time seems to have stalled, as recovered 35mm strips of weekdays revolve disorderly in a carousel of past attractions.
A Study of Fly
(Country: US; Year: 2018; Director: Cherlyn Hsing-Hsin Liu; Stars: Wen-Chu Yang, Zheng Fu)
European premiere. Entangled Experience
A reflection on the relationship between insect, human, environment and the universe.
Total Commitment
(Country: UK; Year: 2019; Director: Lars Koens)
Scottish premiere. Communicating Contact
A diver at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin is caught in mid-air across a triptych patterned by a series of tense sonic interrogations.
Unless You’re Living It
(Country: Canada, US; Year: 2019; Director: Sarah Bliss)
UK premiere. Politics Of Place
The simultaneous vulnerability and endurance of a marginalised community is transferred on to this portrait of the quintessential post-industrial town of Mount Forest, Ontario.
Vulture
(Country: Canada; Year: 2019; Director: Philip Hoffman)
Consideration of farm animals.
Water And Clearing
(Country: Austria; Year: 2018; Director: Siegfried A Fruhauf)
UK premiere. Communicating Contact
An old bucket travels to fill a well.
Winter's First Moons
(Country: US; Year: 2019; Director: Kathleen Rugh)
UK premiere. Entangled Experience
A companion piece to last year’s Summer’s Last Moons. Filmed over several nights and using multiple exposures and in-camera editing, Rugh creates a conversation between moons in different phases.
Wunderschein
(Country: Germany, New Zealand; Year: 2019; Director: Guillaume Cailleau; Writer: Matteo Conti)
World premiere. Communicating Contact
Documenting the production of euro banknotes.
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