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Do Movies Dream of Electric Sheep?: Films from Berlinale Forum Expanded and Arsenal Archive & Distribution

Do Movies Dream of Electric Sheep? brings together works from the Arsenal collection that share an affinity with dreams and dream logic. They highlight the medium’s ability to evoke dreams and nightmares, for introspection and fabulation. These films dabble in the uncanny, unsettling aspects of cinema, its mysteries and secrets. Darkly humorous at times, foreboding and confounding, hinting at the supernatural and the occult, self-reflexive and self-conscious, the works range from twisted narratives to conceptual miniatures, from animated abstractions to microscopic observation, from found footage to absurdist historical treatise. Sweet dreams! The program was curated by Angelika Ramlow and Uli Ziemons and it is presented in partnership with the Berlinale Forum Expanded and Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art. Do Movies Dream of Electric Sheep? has been supported with great generosity by the Goethe Institute in Bucharest.

AKIYA

Jonna Kina | Duration 5 min.

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

Tulapop Saenjaroen | Duration 41 min.

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

Chris Gehman | Duration 14 min.

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.

ENTHUSIASM

Anja Dornieden, Juan David González Monroy | Duration 8 min.

A film about a cat.

PHANTOM

Matthias Müller | Duration 5 min.

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.

DREAM

Arthur & Corinne Cantrill | Duration 4 min.

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.

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