Best Short Experimental

  • 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.

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  • 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. 

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • Wall Piano

    Asma Ghanem Christopher Marianetti Alexia Webster State of Palestine, Experimental, 3'00

    Daydream of a young girl who lives under the shadow of a separation wall.

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  • The Night Shatters my Shadows

    Luis Esguerra Cifuentes Colombia, Experimental, 20'00''

    THE NIGHT SHATTERS MY SHADOWS intends to build, first and foremost, a diary of trips and dreams.

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  • Where is Lotte?

    Petra Zopnek Austria, Experimental, 9'04''

    This experimental film is a memorial leap. Underwater models stand in for Lotte, or rather: They jump in for her. They jump into the Old Danube and go searching, in a state of floating, before they rise again, transformated, in the Red Sea.

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  • Buzz Riot

    Rudi van der Marwe Switzerland, Experimental, 7'56''

    Buzz Riot takes inspiration from the internet, particularly the way in which it enables us to consume information.

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  • Patarei Prison

    Ricard Carbonell Estonia, Experimental, 3'00

    Patarei, a former barracks and tsarist army coastal battery, became a Prison, one of the major centers of Soviet repression in Tallinn (estonia) as it was run by the KGB. In the Second World War, the Nazi army detained about a thousand Jews in this place. Today you can visit the lonely rooms.

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  • Butter Lamp

    Hu Wei France, China, Experimental, 15'00''

    A YOUNG PHOTOGRAPHER AND HIS ASSISTANT SUGGEST TO TIBETAN NOMADS TO TAKE THEIR PICTURE. AGAINST DIVERSE AND MORE OR LESS EXOTIC BACKGROUNDS, FAMILIES APPEAR TO THE PHOTOGRAPHER. THROUGH THESE SHOTS, THE PHOTOGRAPHER WILL WEAVE UNIQUE LINKS WITH EACH OF THE VARIOUS VILLAGERS.

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  • Eat

    Moritz Krämer Germany, Experimental, 7'

    A photo shoot and the model is unnerved. Back in the changing room, she makes a surprising discovery. Everything around her is edible - the chair, the TV, the walls.

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  • The Night The Moon Has Many Hours

    Mauricio Arango USA, Colombia, Experimental, 16'00''

    The film tells the story of a young man, living in the country side, whose nightly ritual consists in recovering bodies from a river and returning them to their mourners. We see him sailing away on his boat and picking his catch along a moonlit path. As he ventures outdoors nature's presence is sensed in a heightened manner: animal and insect noises, wind-swung trees, and an impenetrable darkness overtake the viewer's aural and visual fields. All these natural elements work together increasing the sense of awe and mystery surrounding this young man's ritual.

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  • Her Mother's Daughters

    Oonagh Kearney Ireland, Experimental, 6'24''

    An older woman sits before a telephone in an empty house. Her daughters have flown the nest. As she prepares to phone them, their memory is brought back to life

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