Competition programme №2

UK | 2017 | 36 min
Phillip Warnell
Russian Premiere

«Familiar places are those that have incorporated themselves within us» Jean-Luc Nancy.

The third film collaboration between filmmaker Phillip Warnell and philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy explores ideas on the land, the stranger and the open, with a surge of space-race animality. A multi-sensory account of lavender distillation, it suggests the integration of an historical character within the flora and fauna infused life-world of La Drôme.

USA | 2018 | 8 min
Corey Hughes
Russian Premiere

A YouTube yoga tutorial. A collapsed body. An expanded view.

USA | 2017 | 11 min
Jana Debus
Russian Premiere

I AM PAGAN, BABY is about the fringes of life in a kind of Ur-form. the experimental portrait portrays a source of life on the edge of civilisation. Glimpses of a life-path which encourage us to ask what can become of us humans if we rise from the actual rituals of necessity?

UK | 2018 | 12 min
Imran Perretta
International Premiere

After the refugee camp near Calais that became known as the Jungle was razed in 2016, the hundreds of people who had found shelter and a sense of community there were equally abruptly uprooted, adding yet another sorry episode to the disruption and displacement they had already suffered in their flight from persecution, corruption and the fall-out of war. Imran Perretta's video 15 days is inspired by the time that he spent in Northern France with former inhabitants of the Jungle, now living rough in the surrounding woods and fields. The title of the piece is not a measure of the length of his stay there but rather a salute to the hastily made-up name of one of the people he befriended, whose alias '15 days' might be an allusion to the all-too-brief period of respite since his latest temporary camp was destroyed but might also read as a sardonic rebuke of the interminable nature of the time he has been waiting in limbo, in the hope of a new and better life.

Russia | 2017 | 11 min
Mikhail Zheleznikov
Russian Premiere

I often find photos of strangers...This film is a collage of frames shot on an old camera in different cities and countries over the last three years. I shot them from time to time, without any plan — I wanted to make an "optional" film without a main theme or story, where separate, unrelated episodes can collide and change places, as small events from the past change places in memory. This is an unfinished travel diary without a route, chronology, dates and geographical names, dedicated to random subjects, by which we pass every day.

The screening will be followed by Q&A with Mikhail Zheleznikov.