LA SAISON DES FUNÉRAILLES
Matthew LancitSurrounded by villages deeply rooted in ancestral traditions, Dschang is an expanding university town in the heart of Cameroon. Its inhabitants define themselves between the clash of old-world mysticism and modern development...
SHATTERED
Eva GioloShattered is a 10-minute-long short movie about the emotional life of the artist’s grandmother suffering from Alzheimer. In this movie, the spectator wanders in a silent and desolated house sheltering fragments of an old woman’s life, a woman of lost words and confused gestures. Tenderness and despair....
GIL
Eva GioloAt the core of this film collage is the artist’s search for the face of her deceased twin brother, who died without leaving behind any photographic record. Using archive footages and her own home movies, paradoxically his absence is rendered perceptible through a profusion of images. An indirect portrait as the confirmation of an existence....
REMOTE
Eva GioloRemote is a suggestive story. Portrait of a tender companionship in a secluded Irish countryside. Residing in the simplicity of the moment, the waiting and the repetition of days. This is a place where there is no space for imagining a future other than the perpetual repetition of the present. This is a place for survival, to be strong, alone with the wind, eyes burnt by the light...
ANINA
Alkaios SpyrouAnina documents a voyage onboard a container ship, crossing into Baltic. In the form of a film-essay without a narrator, the film assumes the point of view of these iron cathedrals, the industrial maritime landscape they exist in, and the aesthetic spectacles they produce midst the logistical cacophony of capitalism and territory....
LE SUICIDE DE CASSINI
Pauline JulierThe video work Cassini’s Suicide (2017–2019) shows the American space probe Cassini, which burned up as planned when it entered the atmosphere of Saturn in September 2017...
A TONGUE CALLED MOTHER
Eva GioloA Tongue Called Mother depicts the relationship between language, gestures and affiliation. It slowly captures the actions and words of three generations of women in the same family and children learning to read, meditating on words learnt and forgotten through the body....
GEOGRAPHIES OF FREEDOM
Miguel Peres dos SantosThere’s an uncanny kind of shock value to hearing a friendly, old-timey television announcer speak of how the “simple people” of the Netherlands Antilles were rescued from “primitive living conditions” when large oil refineries appeared on the islands, ending their “deficient medical care and lack of hygiene...
SOUTH CIRCULAR
Mónica de MirandaSouth circular first shows us two women, in the shadow of nondescript ruins over the Tagus river in Lisbon...
STUDY OF GESTURES
Eva GioloTwo hands fold meticulously and gently caress a shirt. Study of gestures is an exploration of a cultural heritage, traces and resurgences through gestures. The evocations of body memory, conscious or unconscious....
