Internationales Festival Zeichen der Nacht - Berlin - International Festival Signs of the Night |
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9. Internationales Festival Zeichen der Nacht / Berlin Edition
22th International Festival Signs of the Night / Worldwide
December 10 - 15, 2024
Kino & Bar in der Königsstadt - - - Straßburger Straße 55 - - - 10405 Berlin (Prenzelberg) |
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Berlin
Bar und Kino in der Königsstadt
Strassburger Str. 55
Thursday
December 12th
20 h (8 pm)
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Kent Tate |
Canada / 2023 / 0:04:04 |
"Ark" describes a time when we had a front row seat where it seemed that we could see everything yet it felt as if we were seeing nothing at all. Over the years I’ve found fewer and fewer animals when I go out into nature to look at this or to film that. In the last year I haven’t found any wild animals and I've rarely heard any birds. So where have all the other animals gone? What has happened to them and what is happening to us?
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Mike Hoolboom |
Canada / 2024 / 0:05:20 |
How to step into a new kind of Jerusalem without becoming what we feared? How to leave behind every notion of the chosen few, and embrace the ones along the way, finding a promised land in each other. Based on an excerpt from the poem Red Sea: April 2002 by Aurora Levins Morales, a disabled Puerto Rican Jewish writer and activist.
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Phillip Barker |
Canada / 2023 / 0:16:16 |
Sean’s mission on Earth is to help humans live forever by eradicating useless states of emotion and instinct. However, confronted with "Earth’s pointless gravity", Sean’s body weakens. He seeks the help of a domesticated horse, who introduces him to poetry. Undaunted, he continues to collect samples from Earth: animals, worms, and the very children who have befriended him.
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Tanja Kristine Böhme |
Germany / 2024 / 0:13:01 |
A symphony of marine mammals in an artistic composition that takes up the rhythm and melody of various seals and whales and puts them together to form a SymphonAntArctic Orchestra. It is accompanied by an image orchestra of ice, water and whales. Both sound and video material are taken from scientific field research and find a new expression in artistic processing.
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Pierre Lan, Pierre-Gabriel Jaffres |
France / 2024 / 0:24:40 |
Horizon is the advanture of a man who explores his imagination in search of the inner fulfillment of his being. A poetic fresco is revealed before our eyes, where we follow the walk of an explorer who crosses and gets lost in sumptuous natural landscapes with sublime aesthetics. In the middle of long virgin sand dunes, majestic snow-capped mountains, passing through peaceful seabeds, or even industrial zones where vegetation is gradually regaining its rights, Horizon is a beautiful meditation on solitude, creation, and questions man's place in nature, his weaknesses, his heroism. To make this film, Pierre Lan and Pïerre-Gabriel Jaffres returned to the natural places dear to their childhood in southwest of France. They wanted to question the relationship of their being to the territory where they had grown up. More than a simple introspective approach, this adventure actually led them to rethink their relationship with the environment, nature and living things. But beyond these questions, Horizon is a film which appeals more to our sensitive than intelligible part, and invites the spectator to indulge in a captivating contemplation.
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Pamela Falkenberg, Jack Cochran |
United States / 2023 / 0:08:58 |
Our newest collaboration with renowned poet Lucy English combines footage shot on location In Cancer Alley with images of nature, especially cypress groves, which are as fragile and as threatened as the Cancer Alley communities. The visuals are accompanied by a poem about what it is like to live in the small towns near the Mississippi River, between East Baton Rouge and New Orleans, which are now dominated by more than 200 chemical plants and oil refineries, sometimes literally located in residents' back yards. The cypress trees can live for more than 1000 years, if they are not chopped down for cypress mulch or their habitat destroyed. Human lifespans are much shorter, but we may not survive as a species unless we stop living as if all that matters is today, and learn to think on the time scale of the trees. Text of the poem by Lucy English
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Kris De Meester, Ron Chiers |
Belgium / 2024 / 0:09:02 |
Against the backdrop of societal collapse, two powerful voices engage in a high-stakes debate over the future of humanity. Should mankind be placed under total control to safeguard its survival, or should they be granted the freedom to shape their own destiny, even if it means risking self-destruction?
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Zuza Banasinska |
Polen, Niederlande / 2024 / 0:23:25 |
Zuza Banasinska reinvents the famous Slavic witch Baba Yaga through a clever montage of films from Lodz’s Educational Film Studio, containing sexist content. Questioning their own non-binary identity through an unsettling voice-over that tells the story of a matriarchal family, they unleash the queer dimension of images tasked with conveying a normative conception of identity.
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