13 (2020, Japan, 11 min)
Director: Shinya Isobe
A series of twinkling dots glide across the black screen in the Japanese film 13. Filmmaker Shinya Isobe has captured five years of sunsets, one every thirteen seconds, creating a mesmerizing time-lapse. Analogue shots combined with clusters of shining spots create an interplay of time and humanity in the cosmos.
Budapest Silo (2022, Hungary, Portugal, Belgium, 25 min)
Director: Zsófia Paczolay
József works at the largest, still-operational, grain silo in Budapest. He’s been doing this work for more than 30 years, and lives in a container home next to the structure, where trucks and trains rumble past his window. Captured with stunning, contrast-rich camerawork, and ably edited with a strong sound design this is a mesmerising portrait.
Solmatalua (2022, Brazil, 15 min)
Director: Rodrigo Ribeiro-Andrade
A ritual greeting to Creation and a photograph of a slave ship initiate this organic visualisation of memories from the African diaspora. «The history of Brazil has been written by White hands. Both Blacks and Indigenous people who lived here haven't had their history written yet.» says Rodrigo Ribeiro-Andrade, who stays well clear of traditional historical reconstruction in this intuitively edited composition of archive footage, singing and other, impressionistic, elements. This is not an «objective» historical record, but a poetic essay that connects us directly with a collective consciousness.
