BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM

Film 1 20TH CINEMATIC NAIL FACTORY
Film 2 CHROMATIC SYMPHONY
Film 3 HYPNOSUGGESTION
Film 4 I FOUND WATER
Film 5 IMAGE ME
Film 6 IMMACULATE GENERATIONS NO. 1
Film 7 LA VOIX DES SIRÈNES
Film 8 LION IN THE WIND
Film 9 LONGING FOR LIGHT
Film 10 PAINFUL FLAVOURS
Film 11 RED EARTH
Film 12 RULE NO. 5: SHADOW YOUR MAN CLOSELY
Film 13 SHAPES
Film 14 THE LOVERS OF AVIGNON
Film 15 WAVEWIDTH

Screening:
Mining Directorate, Pernik
  • Hypnosuggestion

    Per Bifrost Sweden, Experimental, 7’50’’

    A hypnotic sci-fi thriller consisting only of still images generated by an Al that examines our memory and consciousness through past and future.

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  • Image me

    Till Gombert Germany, Experimental, 5’55’’

    The experimental short film “Image me” equates the face with the photographic image, exposing the merge with our depiction and the mechanics of rotation around our own axis.

    BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM
  • Immaculate Generations no. 1

    Vito A. Rowlands USA, Belgium, Experimental, 10’55’’

    Thousands of retinal photographs come together to create a dazzling look into thousands of star-studded souls. 

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  • La Voix des Sirènes

    Gianluigi Toccafondo France, Italy, Experimental, 19’40’’

    Up there, on the surface of the water, something extraordinary has just appeared: a voice. So soft and seductive that it's unlike anything we've heard before. 

    BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM
  • Longing for Light

    Alba Cros Pellisé Spain, Experimental, 11’10’’

    The sun as a brush that naturally highlights the intimacy of the rooms, friends, lovers and the people around her: her chosen family.

    BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM
  • Painful Flavours

    Julian Hand United Kingdom, Experimental, 21’56’’

    "In “Painful Flavours” a mesmerising fusion of music and poetry, Felix Bechtolsheimer's reflective odyssey collides with Curse of Lono's ambient soundtrack.

    BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM
  • Red Earth

    Bryce Kraehenbuehl Australia, Experimental, 8’58’’

    An imagined future where a rediscovered archive of photographs, sound and film captures the beauty of extinct ecosystems in South Australia.

    BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM
  • Rule No. 5: Shadow Your Man Closely

    Miro Manojlović Croatia, Experimental, 9’59’’

    One shot from Buster Keaton's Sherlock Jr. train scene becomes the base for specific editing procedures through which the film narrative is reconstructed and a new plot is created.

    BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM