Wrought
With time lapse videography of rotting action, Wrought creates an intimate, immersive world where decay can be beautiful, tender and even surprisingly human.
Canada 2022 / 19:26 / Director: Anna Sigrithur, Joel Penner / Producer: Anna Sigrithur, Joel Penner
Fury
The film deals with the problem of growing anger, frustration and aggression that seeks an outlet. The heroine of the film is a person who loses control of her anger. Losing herself in emotions, she cannot stand the tension.
Poland 2021 / 5:30 / Director: Julia Siuda / Producer: Robert Sowa
balaena
A humpback whale strands on the beach, and a woman seeks closure through a simulation while human interlopers observe, collect, dissect and take selfies.
USA, Italy 2021 / 8:08 / Director: Alessia Cecchet Producer: Alessia Cecchet
Monsieur Sachet
Monsieur Sachet is a wicked escalation of tragicomic anecdotes happening in a colorful, crazy and completely absurd atmosphere.
Canada 2021 / 9:39 / Director: Mathieu Girard / Producer: Mathieu Girard
Fish Kissed
Fish kissed is a short film about the relationship between the urban home and the ocean. The narrative takes place entirely over a kitchen sink. Fish kissed examines both the physical connection between human spaces and marine ecosystems and their cultural connection, for example through references of food preparation, traditional song, eco-news and climate worries, the practise of ichthyomancy (a divination by means of the heads or the entrails of fishes) and biopsy, to foresee the future. The film stars a woman and a sea urchin whose relationship seems to be based on a parallel co-domestication process. The film examines the juxtaposed perception of the sea as a “trophos” -a pleasure, resource and nutrition provider- and waste ground, the cultural stylisation of the marine ecosystem mostly by the tourism and energy sectors and the future of the oceans.
Greece 2022 / 10:10 / Director: HYPERCOMF / Producer: HYPERCOMF
Juice
Meaty creatures must learn to share their juicy world with the pesky little bugs, before they run dry.
Germany 2022 / 4:55 / Director: Mona Keil / Producer: Isabella Braun
Time of a Slime Mold
The movement of slime mold is combined with pattern subjects selected from Karelian thread blankets. Slime molds are primitive Amoebozoa organisms that can move even if they do not have a brain or nervous system. The poem heard in the background expresses themes of time, circulation and decomposing.
Finland 2021 / 9:50 / Director: Leena Pukki / Producer: Leena Pukki
Yeast
Yeast is an absurd and grotesque tale about a struggling baker within a hellish bakery who unexpectedly bakes himself a Frankenstein’s monster made of dough and yeast, which takes over his life.
However, the themes underneath the grime and the grit are prevalent and quickly gives Yeast a deeper, more profound and sad message than the macabre fairytale we were given at the forefront.
UK 2021 / 12:22 / Director: Elliott Gonzo / Producer: James Kirby, Dominic Mayer, Tom Abbosh