Filme – Do Movies Dream of Electric Sheep?: Films from Berlinale Forum Expanded and Arsenal Archive & Distribution – ENTHUSIASM
A film about a cat.
In Akiya a reel-to-reel tape recorder plays a song that tells the story of the increasing number of abandoned houses and buildings in Japan. This contemporary story is told in the ancient style of Noh, a traditional Japanese theatrical form.
Mangosteen tells the story of Earth, a young man who returns to his hometown, Rayong, where his sister, Ink, runs a fruit processing factory. During a casual meeting, Earth finds out that his definition of the term “future” is drastically different from his sister’s.
Dark Adaptation extends the exploration of experimental optical techniques begun by Chris Gehman in Refraction Series (2008). Working with simple, everyday materials, Gehman produces rich and surprising images of pure prismatic color in motion.
Phantom seems to come straight from the realm of the spirits; it's a blood-red coloured fantasy about what lies beyond the curtains that apparently separate the living from the dead.
A partly animated film based on a series of drypoint prints ('Movements' and 'Combats') by Australian printmaker Charles Lloyd on the theme of aggression in society.
