Embodying Voice
A short animated work of lip-syncing inspired by a recording from the British Library.
Ala Nunu Leszynska is a Polish 2D and stop motion director and animator. She currently studies at the Royal College of Art in London.
Experimental Shorts
The Glass Horizon
A nightmare in Niedersachsen begins when Andrei, an Eastern European slaughterhouse guest worker, is denied employee lodging and forced to build a shelter in the nearby forest. Inspired by a real newspaper clipping, The Glass Horizon makes palpable the horror of factory life for guest workers in Germany.
Nine
Nine connects the mathematical loops derived from the number 9 to the endless cycles that we go through in life and after life. We are all ‘strange loops’ part of larger ‘strange loops,’ and these infinite series of loops have been proven mathematically through the number 9.
Phimabong
Phimabong flickers between daydream to nightmare in its mystifying story of two men who spend the day at a rainforest cabin.
Jakkrapan Sriwichai is a student filmmaker at Chiang Mai University in Thailand.
Connect
When a group of living pebbles turns violent, one stone leaves the pack behind.
Hi-Jeong So was born in Aachen, Germany. After moving to South Korea for middle and high school, she returned to Germany to study animation at Filmuniversity Babelsberg Konrad Wolf. Currently, she works as a background artist at the animation studio Meditation With a Pencil.
Redpoint (Iran)
you can see wonderful city…with heart and brain!!
Zugzwang (Lebanon)
A satirical journey that takes us through the mind cells of Maria Sikias, a Lebanese woman who’s going through a casting session with a German casting director. With each emotion requested, her subconscious is revealed, haunted by her reality and by the system that we live in as human beings.
Perla Joe Maalouli grew up in Lebanon. She graduated with a Bachelor’s in Interior Design, but then decided to study Cinematography.
The Organ Harvest (USA)
Organs are harvested from plants fertilized with dead bodies.
Take Notes If You Want To (SUI)
Observations through a sketchbook.
Cotton Candy (USA)
dir. Bianca Boragi
Yale University
(School of Art)
Cotton Candy is an experimental short film that incorporates multiple disciplines such as sculpture and performance. I shot this piece in a furniture store in Ridgewood, NY, which reminded me somehow of a purgatory, a space of repeating forms. By placing a character in this space, themes of wealth, narcissism and addiction emerged. The juxtaposition of these elements creates a tension, offering questions of self-representation.
