film & video: CP06 The Travellers

The film and video section consists of a series of screenings relating thematically to the motto of the festival. Works range from feature film programmes [FP] to a number of compilation programmes [CP] and special programmes [SP].

Ensayo de un Crimen (Rehearsal for a Crime)

Ximena Cuevas [mx]

Rehearsal for Crime – the left hand is holding a lighter, the right one an explosive device.

Being There

Anders Weberg, Robert Willim [se]

Weberg and Willim offer a number of audiovisual excursions beneath the gloss of the tourism rhetoric.

Rekorder

BitteBitteJaJa (Roland Seidel, Ulu Braun) [at/de]

The topic of ‘Rekorder’ is the artist’s own temporary production environment connected with fictional sequences.The video picks out as a central theme the contemporay production field, which is situated between artistic vison / utopia and practical dilemma. The content of the story is a fictional trip to the African continent and was developed during shooting.

International Airport Montelo

eteam [us]

International Airport Montello (IAM) is the collaborative effort to establish the idea of an existing airport in a town with 65 inhabitants in North Eastern Nevada.

Blessed Are the Dreams of Men

Jem Cohen [us]

Moving towards an unknown destination, a group of anonymous passengers float through an unidentified landscape. Built from Cohen’s archive documenting his travels, the film can be seen as a curious parable.

Miraslava

Roberto Santaguida [ca]

A young man, his life in tatters, seeks redemption by fleeing the city.

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