FRIDAY OCT 4 -
SUN OCT 15
Sunday Oct 6
14:00 - 15:15
Negative Flesh:
Positive Code / 1h 9m
International short films
Poetical investigations of sensualism, anatomy, and corporeality have been explored within this collection of films. Prepare for dissections and a reflection of things internal.
Mother
Beverley Hood / 11m / UK
MOTHER is a generative AI photofilm, by artist Beverley Hood, about motherhood.The work was generated from a poetic script, written by the artist in prose form in combination with extracts from ChatGPT, which was fed into the generative AI software Adobe Firefly to create the still imagery for the film.
At Dawn the Flowers Open the Gates of Paradise
Elzbieta Piekacz / 13m / UK
At Dawn the Flowers Open the Gates of Paradise” is a short drama film, which tells the story of losing yourself in the feeling of love.
Black Hills
Lauren Marie Dake / 6m / USA
Black Hills is a meditation on memory, personal history and family bonds and traumas. It was inspired by a roll of found footage of the Black Hills in South Dakota, obtained by the artist whilst she was emotionally processing her mother’s mental and physical decline.
It's under the flesh where you are tender
Agnès Hayden / 3m / Spain
This film delves into the intrusion of the physical and material body, structured around three instructions: scour, submerge, submit.
Things we swallow
Carleen Maur / 4m / USA
A dissection of the phases of holding (or not) onto composure while challenging gender norms.
Negative / Positive Film
Federica Foglia / 14m / Italy
Negative / Positive Film is a hand-made, camera-less collage film composed of layers of erotic 16mm films from the 1920s, 1940s, and 1970s, intermingled with nature documentaries and layers of organic materials.
[please note, this film contains nudity and sexual themes.]
Parallel Botany
Magdalena Bermudez / 11m / USA
“Still lives of real fruit meet botanical illustrations of plant galls to expose the paradox of dissection: each time we cut something in two, we merely create a new exterior.”
Evocation
Richard & Lily Ashrowan / 3m / UK
“A ritual evocation set on Dartmoor, through stone and water, the senses unfolding, drawing inward, and creating. The inner life embodied and manifested as divine play, the Lila of Hindu philosophy, the Lila who was my teacher, now reaching down through the ancestral line in father and daughter. Shot on 16mm film.”
Lilith Piper in Pembrokeshire
Matilda Butler, Lilith Easter Piper / 2m / UK
A brief portrait with artist Lilith Piper sketching the cliffs of Pembrokeshire, shot on Super8 and developed using Caffenol. The soundscape was created by Lilith.
This is how I felt
Josh Weissbach / 2m / USA
This Is How I Felt was filmed in a twenty-four period while the filmmaker was wearing a heart monitor to investigate possible arrhythmias.
