Prompted by the death of her grandmother, Magdalena, she visits Gertrud, her grandmother’s life partner. Gertrud gives Petra an old suitcase full of memorabilia. Petra, in an attempt to protect memories from fading, decides to make a filmic ode to the love Magdalena and Gertrud shared. Based on the poem “im sommer sitzen die alten” by Ulrike Almut Sandig. German with English subtitles
Filter Films
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“My balcony is my boat. Today is the 1st of May and it’s pretty loud in Kreuzberg. And hot. Shit helicopters. Get off! Now the summer can begin.” So starts Dagie Brundert’s evocation of languorous summer days. Puffy white clouds pass by in a blue sky, and milky clouds of cream in her coffee trigger memories of childhood. Past and present converge.
Milchwolken Liebe (Milky Clouds Love)
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On ancient star maps of magnificent colour quality, experimental animator Lawrence (Larry) Jordan takes the viewer out of this world into a world of cosmic imagination.
Cosmic Alchemy
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“ONE, TWO, THREE, DUSK” is a visual and auditory exploration of one woman’s life and relationships in three parts from birth to motherhood to death.
One, two, three, dusk
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A repetitive experimental animation based on segments of the Serge Gainsbourg’s song of the same name. “VARIATIONS SUR MARILOU” is a meditation on desire, weakness and attraction that pays particular attention to the movements made by bodies, their presence in space and the traces left behind in the frame. French with English subtitles.
Variations sur Marilou
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“M” is a film of assemblage, juxtaposition and manipulation of hand-drawn animations that were scanned, manipulated and combined. The resulting images were printed on paper and reworked, then organized according to their level of complexity and the movements that constitute them. Small architectures appear and overlap. Brief nebulas arise, the most complex structures sometimes recalling constellations and other stellar clusters.
M
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A vintage erotic film is cut into strips and then reassembled. As the strips are displaced and manipulated, an abstraction occurs. Part of the TAIS Eleven in Motion program.
Strips
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A lovely time-lapse portrait of landscapes and people at night, featuring both loneliness and connection and ending with a fireworks display. “Nightlight” was shot on expired black-and-white Double Super 8 film and processed as negative, the gelatin layer of the film stained red. Jury Award, Dresdner Schmalfilmtage / Dresden Small Format Festival 2010
Nightlight
