LIVESTOCK(2022)

All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt(en)

Tender caresses and enveloping embraces are portals into the life of Mack, a Black woman in Mississippi. Winding through the anticipation, love, and heartbreak she experiences from childhood to adulthood, the expressionist journey is an ode to connection — with loved ones and with place.

Berlin: Symphony of a Great City(de)

A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides an insight into the living and working conditions at that time. Germany had just recovered a little from the worst consequences of the First World War, the great economic crisis was still a few years away and Hitler was not yet an issue at the time.

Seco Estudo de Cavalos(pt)

In this videoart, the creator uses mixed media animation as they read a Clarice Lispector short story. Drawing a comparison with her own life experiences, she questions what it means to be a lesbian. Excluded from every aspect of the patriarchal life, she creates her own identity through her loved ones, relying on the precursors of the lesbofeminist movement.

Tears in Rain(en)

Digital images decomposing in rain-like effects. A visual poem, trying to capture the poetics of a cinematic rain shower into the structure of its images. Still images from the 1982 science fiction film noir classic Blade Runner become animated, a frozen memory of two lovers is washed away in time.

Man with a Movie Camera(ru)

A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling inventiveness.

FALL(fr)

the poem exists, the book does not(en)

In this short from James Knight, a collection of Paul Celan's poetry is subjected to an electrical atomisation. Its words are severed from their material form. Knight composes through decomposition, pages disintegrate and reintegrate, and all the while the traces of their words remain fixed.

Rusty Threesome(ja)

Yo - a hard working salary girl loses her mouth.

I Am Belfast(en)

Belfast, it's a city that is changing, changing because the people are leaving? But one came back, a 10,000 year old woman who claims that she is the city itself.

The Hart of London(en)

"The Hart of London" is an endlessly layered tour de force. It explores life and death, the sense of place and personal displacement, and the intricate aesthetics of representation. It is a personal and spiritual film, marked inevitably by Chambers’s knowledge that he had leukemia. The late American avant-garde filmmaker Stan Brakhage said of Hart, "If I named the five greatest films [ever made], this has got to be one of them." Even this high praise falls short of hyperbole. The Hart of London is at the centre of Chambers’s extraordinary achievement.

Monks(xx)

A haiku film poem. the early morning waiting for the monks. the voices. the fire. the wat drum.

Broadway by Light(fr)

An experimental meditation on Times Square's marquees and iconic advertising that captures the concurrently seedy and dazzling aspects of New York's Great White Way.

Passersby(en)

Six lives intersect in a city symphony of chance encounters.

Longing for Spring(ja)

A visual poem where a woman visits various Buddhist temples in Nara and winter turns to spring.

Bodies of Desire(en)

Using Varsha Panikar's poetry series by the same name, it follows the journey of a poet as they rediscover love, passion, and identity after encountering their muse.

the flowers and sorrow he gave me(pt)

Inspired by moments of the Brazilian writer Gabriel Yared’s life and mixing storytelling and poetic declamations by the author himself, the film presents us the love overgrowing between two young man, Alex and Luís, their comfortable couple routine, and explores which limits that love can support when, like dry flowers, it faces the hard and cold earth of deceptions and expectation breaches, with the city of Macapá, in ther Northern Brazilian State of Amapá, as background.

De Wind(nl)

Symphony of a City(sv)

A short film about Stockholm. Sweden's first Oscar, 1949 Best Short Subject, One-Reel.

Song of Khartoum(en)

Gubara was proud of the first color film in African cinema, which attempts to give an African response to the city symphony genre by capturing disparate images of daily life in Khartoum and setting it to music, particularly romantic Arabic songs.

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