A skier on melting ice — caught between motion and impermanence. The short film touches the fragile threshold between natural forces and human traces, drawing viewers into the glacier’s innermost breath and immersing them in its fading soul. The melting glacier stages a visually poetic disintegration. Its echo reverberates through the skier’s thoughts, pulling him into the depths of his own psyche. Snow fractures into digital shards; space dissolves into a shimmering breath of transience. A visual resonance of the climate crisis — fragmented, dislocated, yet impossible to ignore.

In Eva Giolo’s latest work the resonances of place, magic and myth unfold through play. Attendant to the landscape through a child’s-eye, the film streams into the specific, hidden, and vast geologies of the Dolomite mountains, through the trills and murmurs of Ladin, the minority Rhaeto-Romance language spoken in the region. As the children narrate local folklore, this language and its oral traditions, passed from body to body, itself becomes corporeal and indivisible from the land.

( Open City Documentary Film Festival )

“Deluge” is an ever-evolving landscape where the present inevitably coexists with the past. Memories are formed, reshaped, and obliterated, relentlessly competing for space. Control is surrendered, and mistakes and second chances are embraced. It is the slow stampede of a vulnerable mind.

Meejin Hong is an experimental animator deeply rooted in the fine arts. She holds an MFA in Experimental Animation from California Institute of the Arts and a BFA in Printmaking from Cornell University. She is part of a team of post-disciplinary artists at Electronic Countermeasures, LLC based in Los Angeles. She was born in Spartanburg, SC and currently resides with a creep of tortoises and other unruly creatures in Winnetka, CA.

I live in Saarland. The place is surrounded by forests and I find it very beautiful and exotic. Almost like a Bob Ross painting. But while hiking I came across a bunker and realized that there were beasts lurking behind the happy trees. A short essay film about war and forest.

Víctor Orozco Ramírez is an independent filmmaker born in Mexico and based in Germany. His films have participated in more than 250 Film festivals and had won awards among others at the following international film festivals: Mar del Plata International Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Morelia Film Fest, Guadalajara International Film Festival, Animafest Zagreb. They had also been awarded with the Preis der Nationalgalerie for filmmaking, the First Steps Award and the German Short Film Award.

An analogue animated film based on a self-observation experiment, made with a conscious abandonment of premeditation in favour of an intuitive method of development. We travel through free-flowing thoughts and emotional states, paralleling the world that is happening inside and around us.