Expect works that don’t always follow conventional rules, but instead open up new perspectives on what audiovisual practice can be and do.
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Soft Limits by Kjettil Gerritsen. Short film. Through different voices, Soft Limits explores how freedom is personally experienced, translating intimate stories into poetic visual worlds. Contains photosensitive content (flashing lights).
Casa Amarela by Marina dos Anjos Hardy. Short film. Celina is a young immigrant woman who returns home to heal from illness under the care of her family, where together they navigate how distance changed their connections.
Carry-On by Skaistė Šileikaitė. Short film. While waiting at an airport gate to leave her hometown, a traveler drifts through a landscape of memories, facing the emotional baggage she carries. As she does, her former self slowly dies, making way for a new version of her to emerge.
Protozoa by Zef Oosterhof. Short film. Protozoa, a lonely fluke of nature, faces Earth’s evolutionary winner, the mussels, to stop their evil plot of devolving all other life on Earth into complete extinction. Trigger warning: Contains photosensitive content (flashing colours and light effects).
Miserere by Jarmo Willering. Short film. An exploration of humanity’s never ending attraction to self-destruction and the end of the world. Trigger warning: Contains graphic violence or injury detail. Photosensitive content (flashing lights). Advisory age: 14+
The Endless Voyage by Suzanne Lub & Rada Skumova. Short film. A luxury ark flees a collapsing world, but the greed onboard proves heavier than the flood outside Advisory age: 9+