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Hommage: Punto y Raya 2025

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Luke Shannon
A generative algorithm propels a delicate ray of light forward until it bounces from the imaginary boundaries of the image. A study of reflection, refraction, and materiality.
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Luke Shannon
Hommage: Punto y Raya 2025
Animated Film
USA
2023
4 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None
A delicate white ray approaches the frame of a dark picture, bounces off and changes direction. The ray begins to ramify into a geometrical shape. Various algorithms became the co-authors of this generative work that explores the physical laws of reflection. The code-generated soundtrack reacts in real time to the gradually transforming sequences of figures.
Franka Sachse

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Director
Luke Shannon
Hommage: Punto y Raya 2025

For Tashi

Rebecca Ruige Xu, Jiayue Cecilia Wu
A touching journey through the mountainous landscape of the psyche of a woman who has lost her unborn child far too early. Through the valleys of despair up to the heights of healing.
Filmstill For Tashi
Filmstill For Tashi

For Tashi

For Tashi
Rebecca Ruige Xu, Jiayue Cecilia Wu
Hommage: Punto y Raya 2025
Animated Film
USA
2020
8 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None
The flowing movement of a mountain landscape shrouded in orange fog is disturbed. The regular wafting stops, the landscape structures crumble. The atmospheric sound becomes a shrill screech. “For Tashi” describes the physical and emotional turmoil of a woman after the loss of her unborn child, seeking resonance with the viewers, hoping for comfort.
Franka Sachse

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Director
Rebecca Ruige Xu, Jiayue Cecilia Wu
Hommage: Punto y Raya 2025

Function

Victoria Bylin
A rhythmic exploration of abstract organic and inorganic processes, embodied by oscillating shapes in intense colours. What function might these objects have?
Filmstill Function
Filmstill Function

Function

Function
Victoria Bylin
Hommage: Punto y Raya 2025
Animated Film
USA
2018
6 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None
In mathematics, a function describes the relationship between two sets that assigns to each element of one set exactly one element of the other. The term function in general defines the purpose for which something exists. This film is a rhythmic examination of abstract organic and inorganic processes, embodied by oscillating shapes in intense colours.
Franka Sachse

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Director
Victoria Bylin
Hommage: Punto y Raya 2025

Hillocks

Maria Constanza Ferreira
An experimental animation that plays with the enigmatic shapes and colours of lab-grown crystals. Enlarged, arranged, and supported by a soundtrack, they become art.
Filmstill Hillocks
Filmstill Hillocks

Hillocks

Hillocks
Maria Constanza Ferreira
Hommage: Punto y Raya 2025
Animated Film
USA,
Portugal
2020
4 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None
This experimental animation shows the enigmatic shapes and colours of cultured crystals. Their production, once an indispensable basic process of material science and research, has lost its scientific usefulness today. But the beauty of the resulting objects has no expiry date. Enlarged, sorted and arranged, the crystals become art.
Franka Sachse

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Director
Maria Constanza Ferreira
Hommage: Punto y Raya 2025

The Dancing Line

Shelley Dodson, David Rose
This line makes our heart beat faster with its flexibility and eccentric timing, displaying its dynamic curves in a classic burlesque.
Filmstill The Dancing Line
Filmstill The Dancing Line

The Dancing Line

The Dancing Line
Shelley Dodson, David Rose
Hommage: Punto y Raya 2025
Animated Film
USA
2016
3 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None
Can a geometric structure be seductive? The answer of this spare and yet utterly charming film is clear: Yes, it can! A simple white line on a black background bewitches us with its dynamic curves as we marvel, open-mouthed, at its suppleness and excellent timing. This line is a saucy star that would be a credit to every burlesque show.
Franka Sachse

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Director
Shelley Dodson, David Rose