Being In This World
A selection of experimental films focusing on the nature and poetry of place, from the historical to the cryptozoological, via the psychogeographical, the poetic and to cinema’s imagination of space.

# FILMS

# A World in the Evening

Dan Boord and Luis Valdovino

USA/2023/9min

Visual and literal poetry that cannot be reconciled with the brutality of history, with the death of a poet and the sleep of reason.

# Bigfoot

Simon Laperrière

Canada/2023/11min

An undeniably eerie presence can be felt within the woods, one that has been lurking from civilization since the dawn of time.

# Garden State

Julie Langsam

USA/2023/12min

Explores the diverse landscapes in which wildlife, development, farming, and industry coexist in the most densely packed state in the USA.

# Red River Nonsites

John Winn

USA/2023/10min

Pieces of information on the assembly and disassembly of Red River (1948) played and fast-forwarded against a background of fall leaves.
Being In These Bodies
A selection of experimental films focusing on the corporal: a swallowed camera, a hearing aid, an experiment in movement and noir cinema.

# The Act of Not Seeing With One’s Own Eyes

Markus Maicher

Austria/2023/8min

Not handmade but auto-poetic, not analog but the newest digital technology, not silent but with sounds produced by the body of a musician, not square but very wide, no subject here, no inner visions, just my inner self.

# Threshold

Sofya Gollan

Australia/2023/8min

A deeply personal exploration of what it means to have a little machine as part of your body, a portrayal of the Deaf experience rarely seen.

# Come Shine

Slawomir Milewski

UK/2023/20min

Delving into the shadowy depths of cinema’s underbelly, echoing the atmospheric nuances of classic film-noir and creating a compelling narrative that is both unsettling and intriguing.

Being in Imagined Space (Interior and Exterior)
Psychological deteriorations build through invisible labour and images collapse, a tree muses on their role-adapted from a story by Urskla Le Guin, finally ending with an experiment in geological thinking, from the Big Bang onwards, through data visualised images.

# I’m Sorry I’m Late

Sharon Mooney, USA, 2023, 7min

Psychological deteriorations caused by invisible labour and stress slowly build.

# Direction of the Road

Janelle Vanderkelen

USA/2023/8min

Uses overlapping cyan and scarlet of anaglyph stereoscopic 3D imaging to speculate how a tree might perceive the world visually.

# Deep Time of Latent Space

Eric Souther

USA/2024/10min

Places AI into the realm of geological thinking that spirals into deep time and broadcasts into the future.