Tre korte værker nomineret til vores Next:Wave Award. Fra Italien til en cowboylejr i Sverige, og til et futuristisk univers, hvor et oprør eksploderer.
'The Garden of Calabria' er en vild og vital film fra den italienske støvlespids, hvor en 100 år gammel dame bor i en slidt luksusvilla omgivet af familiemedlemmer, hunde, dyr og gamle antiviteter. 'Rendezvous' af Ernst Skoog er et konceptuelt vidoeoværk fra en svensk sommerlejr, hvor deltagerne i et rollespil lever i det vilde vesten - men hvor autenciteten i de gamle vaner kun kan komme til udtryk som fiktion. Og 'Retreat' af Joeri Verbesselt skildrer en futuristisk vision af en verden på randen af et klimatisk kollaps, hvor et voldsomt sammenstød mellem politi og demonstranter performes af dansere i en parallel virkelighed under jorden.
The Garden of Calabria
Instruktør: René Georg Johansen, Jacob Krzysztof Glogowski
Original titel: Il Giardino Calabrese
Danmark, 2020
DCP, 20 min.
English subtitles
Tilladt for børn over 15 år
Rendezvous
Instruktør: Ernst Skoog
A mythical epoch has resurrected or perhaps it never ended, the cowboys has left their hibernating den and are heading to a remove place on the GPS where only coordinates work. The stories of the old west manipulated and told by the epic film industry has inspired an alienated offspring 150 years later in a Swedish scenery. Here a group of freedom seekers are dressing up in cowboy boots and stetson hats, collectively transforming their reality into a parallel world where they escape the everyday. Rendezvous follows and observes this world as it is set into motion by its inhabitants. Their existence within this realm is what constantly keeps it activated and constitutes an unwritten narration continuously evolving. People come and go, they pass by, some reappear but the camera never ceases to be within this world. The resolute observation successively narrates and together with the inhabitants the camera encapsulate a narrative. Rendezvous is a meeting between reality and fiction. It is a filmic encounter that deals with historical and cinematic narratives that seems to exist in a haunted manner. It is a portrait of a mode of contemporary coexistence that carries a rejection towards worldly affairs, taking the Wild West as its backdrop. This world is observed through DV where the materiality of this obsolete technique deranges our perception of what is being depicted. As the film unfolds, the choice of technique is relating to what is being looked at, where the format emphasises on an intimacy in the encounter and reveals the gaps in this western simulation.
Sverige, 2020
DCP, 30 min.
English subtitles
Tilladt for børn over 15 år
Retreat
Instruktør: Joeri Verbesselt
Dusk. Wind. Rising temperatures. Protest chanting, batons ready, waiting for tear gas. The riot police charges towards a multitude of masked persons.
Belgien, 2019
DCP, 21 min.
English subtitles
Tilladt for børn over 15 år
