Romantic Self Exiles I, Morehshin Allahyarii - 6 min, Iran
A reflection and presentation of emotional attachments—collective and personal. The video puts together every five senses of my body into one—sight—through voiceover and 3D animation to build, revisit, and navigate an imaginary home, the inside and outside the empty rooms, rooms without bodies, rooms left behind. |
Monroe Lake Legend - Episode 4, Hanyu Hu - 5 min, China Monroe Lake Legend - Episode 6, Hanyu Hu - 2.5 min, China A web series follows three art school students in California. Told through the eyes of Yuqian, a 21-year-old art freshman, the episodes slip between ordinary and fantastical, melancholy and comical. |
Reality Fragment 160921, Qigemu - 14 min, China/Taiwan Our own histories are always under curation, and as such, our perspectives become the central point in the building of personal realities. Reality Fragment 160921 follows two people through the process of their own reality-curation against and via understandings of distance. |
Barbary Fig, Bianca Abdi-Boragi - 16 min, France/Algeria
The film explores a path of an exile, back through the path of memory. Ghalia remembers fragments of her childhood, growing up as part of the Kabyle tribe during the Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962) against the French colonial empire. The Kabyles are an ethnic group indigenous to Northern Africa, living in Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco. |