In the Fishtank

Linnea Nugent

3 min

A triptych contemplation of nature's mystery through earthly scenes. —Linnea Nugent

Extinction Story Origin Story

Terrie Samundra

18 min

On their way home from school one day, two young girls find themselves in a haunted desert.
—Terrie Samundra

Hinkelten

Svetlana Romanova

18 min

Constructed out of personal poems and notes, xиӈкэлтэн poses questions about image production's intersection with creation of narratives, that are embedded now in our perception of contemporaneity and manifest themselves in our performances of ideas and feelings like love. Positioned in the Yakutian Arctic, this visual essay invites the viewer to ask vital questions in relation to peripheral discourse that seems to be inseparable in relation to the etymology of the word itself - Arctic, and how does the western ontologies in relation to intimacy are fitting in immediate Yakutian realities. —Svetlana Romanova

Unspeakable Heap

Kara Ditte Hansen

14 min

A short-film about my uncle, a retired greco-roman wrestling olympian living atop a decommissioned landfill. In “The World Of Wrestling” Roland Barthes uses the phrase "unspeakable heap" to describe the wrestler's flesh at the moment of defeat spread out on the floor. A heap also recalls the shape of waste and a structure that rises to a climax only to slope down again towards the ground. For the ground is the surface that marks the difference between victory and defeat, the living and the dead, and the present and the past.
—Kara Ditte Hansen

Landscape Suspended

Naghmeh Abbasi

26 min

'Landscape Suspended' tracks the story of an “interrogation” through the footages from Shahoo mountain, a mountain in Kurdistan of Iran which hosts nomadic Kurdish tribe called Havar Neshins and Kurdish guerrillas. This film’s images are a kind of revelation through visual interrogation, revealing the perception of the socio-political history and violence that surround the people in the mountainous area.Through landscape as its approach, this film tries to uncover spatial justice by observing the living space of the Havar Neshins, identified based on the complexity of the landscape in which they reside. —Naghmeh Abbasi