FESTUNG:HEIMAT

AUSTRIA 2003, 7:00 MIN., COLOR AND B/W, GERMAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES DIRECTED BY DAVID KLEINL MUSIC DAVID KLEINL, GLIM

The short film “Festung:Heimat“ is based on a critical text drawn up by ZEBRA, an organization in Graz, Austria, on the Schengen Agreement and its effects on the EU‘s insular asylum and migration policies as they are applied to a region on Schengen‘s external border: Austria‘s Burgenland.

ROSA COELI

AUSTRIA 2003, 24:00 MIN., B/W, 35 MM, GERMAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES DIRECTED BY JOSEF DABERNIG EDITING JOSEF DABERNIG CAMERA CHRISTIAN GIESSER SOUND EDITING MICHAEL PALM ACTORS WOLFGANG DABERNIG, KURT FELLINGER, THOMAS SCHMID, JOSEF DABERNIG VOICE BRANKO SAMAROVSKI PRODUCED BY JOSEF DABERNIG

The film begins abruptly: the first image is a medium-range shot of a man. He is sitting in a train, reading. Then we see a close-up of the man. A first-person narrator says from off-camera: “We convince ourselves that we need it: a memory of childhood.“ Sounding over everything is a drone, it makes abstract the sound of a train ride and at the same time opens up a space beyond that which is visible. “Rosa coeli“ leads us into a cave or a pipe - the chasm of memory, the dark abyss of forgetting.

WORST CASE SCENARIO

GROßBRITANNIEN 2004, 18:00 MIN. DIRECTED BY JOHN SMITH

“Wost Case Scenario“ starts out as a series of still photographs depicting daily life on a Viennese street corner. The film re-orders and manipulates a selection of these images, and as it progresses the static world slowly and subtly comes to life. As Sigmund Freud casts his long shadow across the city, an increasingly improbable chain of events and relationships starts to emerge.

KHODA INJAST

GOD IS HERE

IRAN 2004, 12:00 MIN., COLOR, PERSIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY TAHERE HASSANZADEH CAMERA, EDITING TAHERE HASSANZADEH PRODUCED BY DOCUMENTARY & EXPERIMENTAL FILM CENTER, IRANIAN YOUNG CINEMA SOCIETY, TEHRAN, IRAN

This documentary film is about the christian old people who live together in the nursing house.

TI STAVO ASPETTANDO

I WAS WAITING FOR YOU

ITALY 2002, 7:08 MIN., 16 MM DIRECTED BY GAIA ADDUCCHIO SCREENPLAY BY FRANCESCA PEDRAZZA GORDERO CAMERA FRANCISCO GAETE EDITING, MUSIC SILVIA CARACCIOLO SOUND EDITING ROBERTO GIANNELLI ACTORS ANDONI ARESTIZANDA, SARA SPIZZICHINO PRODUCED BY THCINEMA, ROM, ITALIEN

An abandoned tram station. A woman, alone. She walks nervously back and forth. Suddenly a man, from behind ...

ORT DES BÖSEN

PLACE OF EVIL

GERMANY 2004, 3:10 MIN., COLOR, MINI DV, GERMAN WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY CHRISTOPH JANKOWSKI EDITING CHRISTOPH JANKOWSKI CAMERA SVEN NIEDER ACTORS (OFFSTIMME) / (OFFVOICE) INSA GÜLLEMANN

Sometime, any place, where something happens that we cannot influence, that we cannot grasp or even wish to understand, and yet we have to accept it, a catastrophe.

VTP - VIDEO TRANSFER PROTOCOL

GERMANY 2004, 7:00 MIN., COLOR WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY SIMON MEIER, NINA JURIC EDITING SIMON MEIER, NINA JURIC CAMERA SIMON MEIER MUSIC GABE SHALOM ACTORS MONIQUE OPETZ, SIMON MEIER

The film translates invisible digital signals that normally take place inside hardware into a metaphorical analogue real world where videoframes are sheets. A firewire presents a clothesline and email Providers display tube lines.

KOLKUTTAJAT

THE KNOCKERS

FINLAND 2003, 13:30 MIN., COLOR, DV, FINNISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY ANSSI KASITONNI (HEINONEN) SOUND EDITING, CAMERA, EDITING, MUSIC ANSSI KASITONNI (HEINONEN) CAMERA ANSSI HEINONEN, MAIJA KIMANEN ACTORS ANSSI HEINONEN, VESA PEKKA HURME, SUVI KANTOLA PRODUCED BY ANSSI KASITONNI (HEINONEN)

The animation tells a story of two bankrobbers, and strange underground creatures who take action whenever necessary.