Luna Licks, dir. Abel Kohen (France, 2023, 4’)
This music video for Thriftworks’s song Luna Licks features contemporary dancer Chloé Dorémieux. An ode to contrast, a whirlwind of stripes, a striking dazzle.
Miles Davis – What’s Love Got to Do With It, dir. Irina Rubina (USA, 2022, 4’)
Star People strolling through the night. Each of them alone, in their own dance, accompanied by shiny flowing waves. Those small sparkling dashes can lead them out of the darkness into surrealistic, mysterious, and cheerful scenery, if everything goes right…
A Falling Loop, dir. Nathan Fischer (USA, 2022, 5’)
A Falling Loop is an experimental short with a mission to unite artists and musicians to strengthen our global community, to engage Midwest rural communities, and to pair animation with new music and guitar. Engaging Midwest rural communities to participate in A Falling Loop included collecting drawings and audio from community members. The images collected were reimagined and brought to life by animator, Ida Lasic. According to Ida, “in A Falling Loop, community drawings of the flora and fauna of homelife were taken into the 3D plane, transforming them into the textures of wild nature from the dancing stickmen to the corn, to the vast pale blue fields”. Audio was collected from more than 40 guitarists, and Miles explained that in the process of electronic composition, “the guitar was sampled and synthesized into new digital landscapes and rhythmic eruptions” to accompany the guitar. Participants on the project join from Australia, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Colombia, Croatia, Germany, Malaysia, Mexico, Serbia, the UK, and the United States–including guitar programs at the State University of New York in Fredonia, the University of Louisville, and Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. The project was funded in-part by the Indiana Arts Commission, the Indiana University Center for Rural Engagement, and the Twisted Spruce Music Foundation.
Do I Follow The Wall?, dir. Ben Walden (UK, 2023, 4’)
An experimental, animated music video for the band Often Rarely Sometimes Never. Through pinhole photography and ink rotoscoping, the video depicts the chaos of today.
Monday at the Cube Factory, dir. Sebastian Freudenschuss (Austria, 2022, 3’)
We enter the gate to the cube factory on an ordinary Monday. Strange processes create something unknown. The endlessly repeating flow of cubes hypnotizes us. Our vision gets blurred after a while. We don’t really know if it’s time to leave yet. It wouldn’t hurt to watch a little longer…
Anima Overdrive, dir. Stefan Panhans, Andrea Winkler (Germany, 2023, 4’)
»Deliver, deliver, deliver, deliver, I’m your deliver delivery, I’m your delivery deliver, I’m your delivery deliver delivery, I deliver tokenism, I deliver you a boss, I deliver your perfect coach & artsy art consulter, I deliver mini jobs and alcopops, I deliver all your medicine right before you know you’re ill … I deliver everything!« raps the Delivery Heroine (Lisa Marie Janke) in a battered quarterback dress and feral make-up to the driving beat – alone in a storage room in front of a huge backpack and gaming chairs wrapped in bubble wrap. The ubiquitous delivery services from Amazon to Gorillas to Zalando are only partly the point here. Rather, Anima Overdrive ‘delivers’ the sound of rebellious exhaustion in a world increasingly defined by algorithms and A.I. in the service of turbo-accelerated platform capitalism. A world in which quite everything threatens to become a commodity, and we all breathless suppliers.
The film plays with the form of a music video and the reference to the genre of underground rap, whose representatives do not belong to the commercial mainstream canon, but are often distinguished by socially conscious, partly queer, or feminist forms and texts.
Are you okay ?, dir. Emeric Gallego (France, 2021, 5’)
All in Gif Tumblr, the film presents the experience of a young woman victim of eating disorders because of the Internet…
Dance, dir. Yaroslav Lobachev (Russian Federation, 2022, 6’)
“DHB23” is a neo-psychedelic band from Yaroslavl with original sound and Russian lyrics.
The debut video for the single “Dance” is a folk horror story woven into a hypnotic video sequence where reality ends and subconscious games begin.
The single was born long before the filming of the video. But over time, it gained more and more relevance, becoming a musical mirror of both external events and the inner world of the participants. The eternal questions that each of us asks ourselves from time to time, coming along with the opening abyss of various experiences, reaching melancholy, foreboding the end of the world – that reflects the text of the song and the built panorama of sound.
Circle, dir. Phillip Kaminiak (USA, 2022, 6’)
“Circle” is an analogy between the modern human being, living in mass cities, and the phenomenon of the circle of death – observed in nature with ants who are separated from the main foraging party and lose the pheromone track.
They begin to follow one another, forming a continuously rotating circle, commonly known as a “death spiral” because the ants might eventually die of exhaustion.
Shot in Mexico City by director Phillip Kaminiak, this vibrant and impressive city is a protagonist, symbolizing a life in endless high-speed movement and the humans who are dedicating their lives to endless movement, self-exhaustion in a modern capitalistic-based world.
T, dir. Stefanía Pálsdóttir (Iceland, 2023, 2’)
A lucious, brooding abstract film full of textures and enigmatic compositions.
Dream Machine Ballet, dir. Pierre Ajavon (France, 2023, 4’)
Like a bridge between two worlds, the user of the Dream Machine can see complex color patterns appear, these patterns can become swirling shapes and symbols, until the user feels overwhelmed with colors.
In “Dream Machine Ballet”, the rhythmic impulses of the music cause patterns, shapes and symbols of colors in movement, which emerge from the unconscious according to the different musical phases.
Leave Your Body, dir. Natasha Cantwell (New Zeland, 2021, 4’)
Shot within the constraints of Melbourne’s ongoing COVID-19 lockdowns, ‘Leave Your Body’ features the apartment where the filmmaker spent the better part of 2020 and 2021. However, where she sees a prison, her partner Sean sees a sanctuary. To him these five rooms are a fortress, not only protecting them from the virus, but also from the social pressure to interact with strangers. Portraying a fictitious version of himself (as well as the film’s various intruders) he defends his solitude while quietly losing touch with reality. ‘Leave Your Body’ is a celebration of isolation, but also an acknowledgement that the longer confinement continues; the harder it is to rejoin society.
Action!, dir. Arne Körner (Germany, 2022, 1’)
Slating requires diligence and is a very important step of the filmmaking process. Its purpose is to keep a consistent flow of information throughout production. Center of this story is a clapper and his clapper board. A symphony of clapping.
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