8.11.2024, 20:45, Maxx 2
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10.11.2024, 15:30, Maxx 3
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In the European art tradition, the term «still life» refers to images of inanimate or motionless objects. These short films experiment with motifs and elements of still lifes, using objects as metaphors to explore the boundaries of life and death, transience and movement. The resulting stories point far beyond themselves.
Nocturno para uma floresta
Catarina Vasconcelos / Portugal 2023 / 16' / colour / Portuguese / Fic/Exp
In 15th-century Portugal, a group of monks built a wall around a forest and prevented the entry of women. But the hands of the living cannot control everything: in the invisible world, where night reigns and only souls light up the forest, women have built their kingdom of invisibility, without walls.
Souvenir
Miriam Gossing/Lina Sieckmann / Germany/Netherlands 2019 / 20'50" / colour / English / Doc/Exp
A bewitching exploration of the totemic power of the souvenirs seafarers brought home for their partners, after long stretches sailing to the furthest reaches of the Earth. Starting from a documentary observation, the boundaries of outer and inner reality become blurred over the course of the film. Individual souvenirs as fetishized objects turn into unified ornaments as the point of view shifts from the individual to the collective.
Living Still Life
Bertrand Mandico / Belgium/Germany/France 2012 / 15' / DCP / colour / Fic
Fièvre has a unique view of the world. Saddened by the death of animals in the winter landscape, and simultaneously fascinated by their morbid beauty, she brings them back to life through photography. One day, she visits an old man who is unhappy about the death of his wife and has one last wish for Fièvre.
The Living Need Light, the Dead Need Music
The Propeller Group / Vietnam 2014 / 21'15" / DCP / colour / Vietnamese / Exp
A visual and musical journey through the excentric funeral traditions and rituals of southern Vietnam. A dialogue of funerary traditions that pulsate in the same vein throughout the global south. Cultures linked by the raw symphony of a brass band. Grief and joy meet on the threshold of life and death.
