Competition programme №3

Russia / Sweden | 2016 | 28 min
Maria Zennström

Maria Zennström knew that their days were numbered. That's why she filmed the poor intelligentsia of Leningrad in the end of the eighties. The film was shot in a cramped flat in a city that was called Leningrad. Zennström needed a story so she used her family's. She needed a storyteller and used herself. Today, quite some years later, the people, the city and the country where the film was shot no longer exist. The film becomes a time capsule.

Austria | 2017 | 12 min
Herwig Weiser

«Government House» is an exploration, with apparatic means, of the conditions of apparatic creation: a media-driven archeological investigation in the best sense of the word. Formally, the film builds on the Russian Constructivism of the 1920s while questioning its heterogeneous and utopian arrangement. Ontologically and aesthetically, the only reliable stance can be found in-between construction and deconstruction.

USA | 2016 | 5 min
Моника Савирон

«Answer Print» is made with deteriorated 16mm color stock, and it is meant to disappear over time. Neither hue nor sound has been manipulated in its analog reassembling. The soundtrack combines audio generated by silent double perforated celluloid, the optical tracks from sound films, and the tones produced by each of the filmmaker's cuts when read by the projector. The shots are based on a 26-frame length: the distance in 16mm films with optical tracks between an image and its sound.

Sweden | 2017 | 23 min
John Skoog

The shadow of a tall and hunched man moves around a labyrinthine apartment full of bookcases, video tapes and plastic bags - like a modern Max Schreck who is restlessly looking for something that has been lost forever. The mystery and melancholy from Murnau's vampire classic is preserved in John Skoog's interpretation of «Nosferatu», which is a (self-)portrait of the Swedish 'outsider artist' Richard Vogel, with whom Skoog has created his latest film work. A film that gives a new meaning and dignity to the concept of Scandinavian Expressionism by being filmed on an antiquated video format and copied from an antique video projector, whose three colours constantly threaten to dissolve the porous picture into a vacuum of abstraction. The recently deceased Vogel was a close friend of Skoog's family, but lived a quiet life dedicated to accumulating hours of videotaped television shows and almost aggressively meaningless own projects, which in an almost lexical fashion document the welfare state's invisible corners and waste products in countless works.

Great Britain | 2016 | 10 min
Sophie Michael

«The Watershow Extravaganza» is a film presenting the eponymous attraction at Watermouth Castle in Devon, UK. Built for the 1951 Festival of Britain before being installed in the theme park in the 1980s, the show choreographs water and coloured light to paper roll music played by a 1920's Mighty Mortier organ.