2020
Happy Ending
EunJu Ara Choi
‘Happy Ending’ is a poetic documentary animation based on an anonymous online testimony of a Korean prostitute. She is forced to feel pleasure as her job is believed to have to feel and enjoy it regardless of her will. She is suffered for her stigma. However, she explores her body and desire to abolish society’s prejudices against people with prostitutes.
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ACTING
Christine Jezior
Perfect pictures are given to us every day: The optimal body, the optimal nutrition, the optimal life – everything within reach. All we have to do is make an effort and show some discipline – so the message.
Self-tuning is necessary to belong to.
And caution: don't show any weakness.
Germany
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A Month of Single Frames
Lynne Sachs
In 1998, filmmaker Barbara Hammer had a one-month artist residency in the C Scape Duneshack which is run by the Provincetown Community Compact in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The shack had no running water or electricity. While there, she shot 16mm film with her Beaulieu camera, recorded sounds with her cassette recorder and kept a journal.
In 2018, Barbara began her own process of dying by revisiting her personal archive. She gave all of her Duneshack images, sounds and writing to filmmaker Lynne Sachs and invited her to make a film with the material.
“While editing the film, the words on the screen came to me in a dream. I was really trying to figure out a way to talk to the experience of solitude that Barbara had had, how to be there with her somehow through the time that we would all share together watching her and the film. My text is a confrontation with a somatic cinema that brings us all together in multiple spaces at once.” — Lynne Sachs
United States
0:14:00
BROOKLYN PARK
Nikola Duravcevic
Alone in New York, Somali rideshare driver Abdi begins his nightshift with the news of a tragedy back home. The faces in the backseat change as he wrestles, unable to connect, with whether the unthinkable can be true—until a vision provides the clarity he seeks. Poetic and lyrical, BROOKLYN PARK is a modern-day immigrant tale that explores alienation, grief, and transcendence.
United States
0:14:49