The European Competition: Block 6

Szczecin European Film Festival 2014: 04.10.2014, Saturday, 20:00
Kino Zamek, Korsarzy 34 (where is that?)
Blok tematyczny: Competition

Films

  • Exvotos16'

    Exvotos
    Production: Spain 2014

    Exvotos chases an intimate approximation to the popular devotion, reflecting on the paradox of the search of security through objects. Fluctuating between sacred and profane spaces as the museum, the church or the cemetery (sometimes generating confusion among them) the film-essay generates reflections on the image and its potential focusing on the votive offerings.

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  • I'll call you when I get there20'

    I'll call you when I get there
    Production: Poland / Netherlands 2013 / 2014

    A young artist receives an invitation from a small Dutch gallery called Upominki. She travels to Rotterdam by train. She gets calls constantly: from her worried (soon to be terrified) mother, from her calm grandma, and from a professionally untrusting but cool-headed policeman. What can/could happen before the destination is reached, and beyond? A thorough analysis of the media's influence on our lives, produced with the help of some of these media.

     

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  • Kingdom Come: Rituals7'
    Kingdom Come: Rituals
    Production: Germany 2014

    The view we get is one of non-participation, an inaccessible anomaly to any form of definition which is the precise perspective the artists want to experiment with when looking at the space and surroundings of what signifies the German political centre, at political geography and urban landscapes of power. KINGDOM COME was initiated by the artists’ discovery of pigeon photography: a method used mainly during World War I in the field of what would nowadays be called ‘unmanned reconnaissance’.

     

     

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  • Nóż w wozie11'

    Nóż w wozie / Knife in the Wife
    Production: Poland 2014

    If one were to seek film references, this wouldn't be an easy connotation with Polański's Knife in the Water, but with The Impossible Goodbye – the atmospheric, melancholy debut of Stanisław Jędryka from 1962. Both films tell the story of a provincial circus. The films are 52 years apart and belong to different genres (The Impossible Goodbye is a feature film), and the laundry is done differently as well (no buckets or jugs anymore, but an automatic laundry machine). However, in both the 50-year-old circus story as well as the contemporary one, the circus lady does the laundry outside. In the story by Vita Drygas we get to see the Arizona circus, where the husbands throw knives at their wives. And the audience, regardless of age, take in the experience: the funny, the scary, and the exciting.

     

     

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  • PS Sao Paulo15'

    PS São Paulo
    Production: Belgium / Brazil 2013

    Two men are wandering about in the night in a big city. They are having a conversation, one that can only happen between two lost souls. We will not get to know their life stories or their faces. Maybe they are watchmen guarding rich neighbourhoods, maybe something else.  We are driving around an alien town with at-hand equipment. A (police?) helicopter drowns out the conversation and the thoughts. São Paulo is the biggest agglomeration on the southern hemisphere. The city itself is inhabited by 11 million people, the whole agglomeration – by around 21 million.

     

     

     

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  • To byłoby coś pięknego17'

    To byłoby coś pięknego / That would be beautiful
    Production: Poland 2014

    Humanity's problem with colonising Mars would have been resolved long ago if there had only been a way to return from this planet that is almost a year's travel away. It has been decided to at least send people on a one-way journey to Mars. The international program received over 200 thousand submissions from volunteers worldwide. Among them there is Mrs Aleksandra, a biology teacher from Sosnowiec, fulfilled in her family and professional life, fascinated by the possibility of establishing the new cradle of mankind. Like we said, there is no return from Mars, although the lady from the Social Insurance Institution associates the planet with some – distant nonetheless – Great Britain, Ireland, and maybe even Germany. And Mrs Aleksandra, aware of her mission's significance, gets her pension secured and gets accustomed to Marsian landscapes, strolling with her dog along the picturesque streets of Sosnowiec.

     

     

     

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  • Velsignet vaere dette sted29'

    Velsignet vaere dette sted / Blessed by this place
    Production: Denmark 2013

    A multilayered film about seeking identity, and belonging to a place. At the same time it is a portrait of mankind, metaphysical and full of humour, focusing on the areas where we find the meaning of life, areas that make life understandable and meaningful. Weightlifting, work (even in a hilarious costume), a place to put flowers, space to smoke a cigarette and to gossip, a heavenly choir in the funeral chapel. Each of those actions and each of these places can be what they should be under the consistently changing sky.

     

     

     

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Associated artists

  • Anna Morawiec

    First-year student of directing at the Film School (PWSFTViT) in Łódź. Since 2009 has been working with the Radiofonia Association. MA in international and political studies from the Jagiellonian University, studies at the Department of Comparative Civilisation Studies of the Jagiellonian University, scholarship-holder of the Freie Universität in Berlin, graduated from 1st level music school (classical guitar class), former football player. Likes experimenting with life, finds it easy to leave her comfort zone and believes that the most important things in life are corporal integrity and a complete set of limbs.

    Filmography:

    To byłoby coś pięknego (2014)
    Krańcówka (2014)
    Dom (2014)
    Uta (2013)
    Original (2013)
    Kawowo-radiowo (2012)

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  • Carl Olsson

    Carl Olsson was born in Sweden in 1984. He is educated documentary director at The National Film School of Denmark (2009-2013). He has received further education and lived extensively in Latin America. In 2014 Carl Olsson was nominated for a Danish Academy Award (Robert Award) for his graduation film ‘Blessed be this place’.

    Filmography:

    Skördeliv / The Harvester, Agnesfilm 2010
    Nattevagt / Night Shift, Danida 2012
    Mr. Magdy, Room number 17 please, Państwowa Duńska Szkoła Filmowa (National Film School of Denmark) 2012
    Velsignet være dette sted / Blessed be this place, Państwowa Duńska Szkoła Filmowa (National Film School of Denmark) 2013

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  • Leni Huyghe

    Leni Huyghe (1986) studied political sciences before embarking upon Art Academy in Brussels in 2009. She finished her master in Audiovisual arts in 2012. She made four short films so far and is currently writing on a feature fiction film. She is also involved in the artistic collective Mont Saint Eugène where people from a different artistic background present work and curate work from other young artists. She lives and works in Brussels.

    Filmography:

    PS Sao Paulo (2013)
    Do you know what love is (2012)
    Matteus (2011)
    St. James Infirmary (2010)

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  • Małgorzata Goliszewska

    Director of documentary films. In 2012, she completed the DOK Pro course at the Wajda School and the POLSKA.DOC workshops. She worked at the Experimental Film Department at AS in Szczecin. In his work, she uses various media: documentary film and contemporary art, combining these fields. Author of several short films. Two of them “Taki typ ptactwa” and “Ubierz mnie” were shown at international film festivals. 

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  • Martin Sulzer

    Martin Sulzer works as an artist and director in Berlin. His work has been exhibited at
    KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin, CACT Centro d’Arte Contemporanea Ticino, International Ink Art Biennale of Shenzhen, Center for Contemporary Art Plovdiv, Donaufestival Krems, Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, European Media Art Festival Osnabrück, KunstFilmBiennale Cologne, Amsterdam International Film Festival, onedotzero London, São Paulo International Short Film Festival and Seoul International Film Festival.

    Filmography:

    ·Kingdom Come 2014
    ·Surrender in the Presence of Greatness 2012
    ·Wetware 2011
    ·Vasárnap 2010
    ·Endfilm 2009
    ·Tween my lips 2007
    ·Big minds never die 2006
     

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  • Mercedes Mangrane

    Mercedes Mangrané (b. 1988 in Barcelona) develops audiovisual projects by focusing in urban conflicts and the paradoxes of contemporary society. Departing from her most immediate context and observing the details and gestures of the everyday life, she makes films that hybridates the documentary and fiction as well as poltical subjectivities.

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  • Vika Kirchenbauer
    Vika Kirchenbauer is an artist and filmmaker. She currently lives and works in Berlin. In her practice she often examines the construction of narrative and temporal coherence in relation to memory. Her films and videos have been described as multifaceted realities full of sharp analysis, poetic beauty and absurd contradictions.  Internationally awarded, her work has been shown in more than 30 countries worldwide at events and institutions such as VIDEONALE.14, Uppsala Int’l Short Film Festival, São Paulo Int’l Short Film Festival, Cork Film Festival, Tampere Film Festival, cph:dox Copenhagen Int’l Documentary Film Festival, Jihlava Int’l Documentary Film Festival, Visions du Réel Nyon Int’l Documentary Film Festival, L’Alternativa Barcelona Int’l Independent Film Festival, Hamburg Int’l Short Film Festival, European Media Art Festival, MIX NYC Queer Experimental Film Festival, Busan Int’l Short Film Festival, La Cinémateque Française, PACT Zollverein, Kunstraum Bethanien Berlin, Göteborg Konsthall, Kunstmuseum Bonn and Bundeskunsthalle Bonn.
     
    Filmography:
     
    The Multitude is Feverish (2010)
    We – 1st Person Plural (2009)
    Reproduktion (2009)
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  • Vita Drygas

    Graduate of French philology at the University of Warsaw, Student of Cinematography, Directing, and Art Photography at the Katowice Film School (University of Silesia). Cinematographer for documentaries, short feature films, and advertisements. Knife in the wife is her first original documentary.

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