Best Short Experimental

One Film for Each Nail.

An experimental journey of colors and darkness unfolds through abstract imagery.

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

I Found Water is an autobiographical film that contemplates memory and experience.

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.

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

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. 

A fugue for forgetting windmills in the West. 

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

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

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

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.

A psychedelic and mysterious galaxy composed of different shapes.

“The Lovers of Avignon” is the first ever translation of pictorial cubism into motion real image.

In Wavewidth the marine and sound waves resonate in a contemplative experience of a seaside landscape.

A restless longing spreads inside the city bus.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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