Small Miracles

USA 2006. Dir Julia Hechtman. 5min.

Sci-fi hallucinations seem commonplace as Hechtman invokes mysterious natural phenomena: an extreme case of mind over matter.

Kempinski

Mali-France 2007. Dir Neil Beloufa . 14min.

Speaking in the present tense, interviewees describe their idiosyncratic notions of the future. To the western viewer, the unlikely subjects, stylised settings and atmospheric lighting impart a strange disconnect between science fiction and anthropology.

Tjúba Tén

USA-Suriname 2008. Dir Ben Russell, Brigid McCaffrey . 47min.

'An experimental ethnography composed of community-generated performances, re-enactments and extemporaneous recordings, this film functions doubly as an examination of a rapidly changing material culture in the present and as a historical document for the future. Whether the record is directed towards its subjects, its temporary residents (film-makers), or its Western viewers is a question proposed via the combination of long takes, materialist approaches, selective subtitling, and a focus on various forms of cultural labour.'
Ben Russell

Remote Intimacy

Germany 2008. Dir Sylvia Schedelbauer. 14min.

Cast adrift in the collective unconscious, Remote Intimacy constructs an allegorical collage from found footage and biographical fragments, exploring cultural dislocation using the rhetoric of dreams.
Mark Webber