WdKA Graduation shorts: Hybrid/Experimental 2 – What Is Out There?
Hoezo in KINO
What can the thought of the unknown do to us? Explore the rich worlds these makers have created in their stories and the underlying questions of greed, migration, polarization, and a fear of dying. This programme includes Q&A’s with the graduation students moderated by Young-Ju Yoo.
Storyline
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).
Ingrave by Crina Manaila & Dovydas Raudonis. Game trailer. When the Queen is murdered, and Head Guard Aurora’s close ones are guilty by suspicion, she must dissect her own past to decide which of her friends deserves to pay the price. Advisory age: 12+
Iemand voor Altijd|. by Maxim van den Bijgaart. Short film. Because of an extreme fear of dying, filmmaker Maxim van den Bijgaart obsessively 3D-scans his life to exist forever, but spirals into an existential crisis about what it means to actually be alive. Advisory age: 12+
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+