by Giovanni Fabbris | May 31, 2023 | Video Art
Emanuele Dainotti (Belgium) Duration: 15′ 00″ Beirut, year of grace 2021. Lebanon is facing one of the most devastating crises in the history of mankind. Violence appears silent and invisible in the form of cuts and shortcomings. The explosion in the port...
by Giovanni Fabbris | May 31, 2023 | Video Art
Mahshid Afzali (Islamic Republic of Iran) Duration: 5′ 10″ Streets and places in Tehran are full of names that have changed over time with the emergence of various ideologies, and this has an impact on the collective identity of the people and the city....
by Giovanni Fabbris | May 31, 2023 | Video Art
Salvatore Insana (Italy) Duration: 11′ 49″ It was still in the hour of the wood. An access door. a threshold and a figure who stops and maneuvers his being within that out of place frame, before the impossible crossing. A liminal rite of a mystical nature,...
by Giovanni Fabbris | May 31, 2023 | First expressions
Laron Shwartzman & Ori Dishi (Israel) Duration: 15′ 31″ Yoni, a young man dealing with Misophonia, is re-experiencing major events from his past. The 28-year-old confronts the trauma that re-surfaces from when he was a soldier in a military activity....
by Giovanni Fabbris | May 31, 2023 | First expressions
Kate Voet (Belgium) Duration: 13′ 49″ Ana attempts to untangle the painful memories of the night when her marriage began to crumble. Unable to speak, she starts writing. Her diary becomes a letter to her husband about their growing alienation, set in a...
by Giovanni Fabbris | May 31, 2023 | First expressions
Kateryna Tatarchuk (Ukraine) Duration: 2′ 53″ Two characters in the story are a 16-year-old girl and her father, who works at a slaughterhouse. One of the main goals for me was to make the essence of father ambiguous. He is compassionate and empathetic,...