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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

The Faults

Gao Yang
This film uses digital brushstrokes to trace traditional Chinese ink brush paintings, inventing a type of landscape painting of its own, strange and yet familiar.
Filmstill The Faults
Filmstill The Faults

The Faults

Duàn céng
Gao Yang
Hommage: Punto y Raya 2025
Animated Film
China
2021
2 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None
The digital shapes growing into the sky in this video artwork are reminiscent of Chinese ink landscapes. They strive upwards, like the sound which seems to pull them up by invisible threads. Everything is steeped in acetic colours that lift the landscape out of the human realm. A journey to a strange and yet familiar world.
Franka Sachse

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Director
Gao Yang
Hommage: Punto y Raya 2025

The Fire Heat Sonatas

Aurora Gasull Altisent
The rhythm-driven animation advances from a world where coloured blocks dominate movement into a space where gravity becomes the determining component.
Filmstill The Fire Heat Sonatas
Filmstill The Fire Heat Sonatas

The Fire Heat Sonatas

Sonades de la calor del foc
Aurora Gasull Altisent
Hommage: Punto y Raya 2025
Animated Film
Spain
2010
5 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None
This rhythm-driven animation is inspired by the 4th movement of the “Sonades de la calor del foc,” the “Sonatas of the Heat of the Fire”, created in 1984 by Catalan composer Josep Maria Mestres Quadreny. It passes through four poeticised spaces: The first is dominated by coloured blocs, the second by gravity, the third by silence, and the fourth takes us back to vibrant life at last.
Franka Sachse

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Director
Aurora Gasull Altisent