Flora
Chaerin Im
Vaginas turn into penises, penises into vaginas, vaginas into … Or is it just a blossom after all? Lots of modification, morphing, twisting. The common denominator: grace.
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Flora
Animated Film
USA
2018
4 minutes
Subtitles:
English
Credits
Producer
Chaerin Im
Director
Chaerin Im
Music
Roger Kim
Editor
Chaerin Im
Animation
Chaerin Im
Script
Chaerin Im
Sound
Roger Kim
“Anyway, a penis looks like a flower, too.” Chaerin Im has turned this over and over again for a few minutes to realise at the end: female and male sexual organs seem to be made of the same material. And look rather like plants when you look closely. Thanks to Im’s animation, though, even more like smooth, elegant morphs.
Carolin Weidner
Carolin Weidner
It’s Going to Be Beautiful
Luis Gutiérrez Arias, John Henry Theisen
The dream of the end of immigration from Mexico in eight architectural prototypes. Beige, blue, concrete, steel, ridiculous against the backdrop of an unlimited landscape.
It’s Going to Be Beautiful
Documentary Film
Mexico,
USA
2018
9 minutes
Subtitles:
English
Credits
Producer
Luis Gutiérrez Arias, John Henry Theisen
Director
Luis Gutiérrez Arias, John Henry Theisen
Cinematographer
Luis Gutiérrez Arias, John Henry Theisen
Editor
Luis Gutiérrez Arias, John Henry Theisen
Animation
John Henry Theisen
Script
Luis Gutiérrez Arias, John Henry Theisen
Sound
Luis Gutiérrez Arias
Trump dreams of a barrier against immigration from Mexico become architecture. And we join in the dream. But do we dream in beige or blue? Do we dream with horizontal or vertical stripes, in reinforced concrete or disarming steel? Eight design prototypes are competing here, made ridiculous by the unlimited nature of the landscape and grounded by test climbers that pull themselves up these monoliths. A brilliantly filmed and conceived documentary joke – without the relief of laughter.
Sylvia Görke
Sylvia Görke
There Were Four of Us
Cassie Shao
At full tilt and brightly surrealistic, this narrative flow circles around questions concerning a death. An electronically charged, garish chamber play. In the leading role: the subconscious, it seems.
There Were Four of Us
Animated Film
USA
2019
6 minutes
Subtitles:
English
Credits
Director
Cassie Shao
Music
Robert Wolf
Animation
Cassie Shao
Sound
Katie Gately
Four people soliloquizing in a room. In the leading role: the subconscious, it seems. An electronically charged, colourful chamber play with rapid changes of location. Sequences that could be from a strange diary in dialogue with layers of dream pull you in. “One day I dreamed that I couldn’t wake up from layers and layers of dreams.” In Cassie Shao’s film, the narrative flow circles around questions concerning a case of death – no holds barred and brightly surrealistic.
Nadja Rademacher
Nadja Rademacher
