The Guanajuato International Film Festival presents the best of the seventh art directly in your city. Its Official Selection offers once again the opportunity to discover the world’s avant-garde...
The Guanajuato International Film Festival presents the best of the seventh art directly in your city. Its Official Selection offers once again the opportunity to discover the world’s avant-garde in cinematography first-hand and before anyone else.
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Official Selection Experimental 1
FILMS:
I Would Rather Be a Stone
Through the voice of Little Jela, the film tells the story of the events that marked a generation and shaped the future of the landscape of Lika, a neglected and sparsely populated region of Croatia. The living conditions impacted on the personal lives of the people who lived there, their solitude, relationships, opportunities, apprehensions and hopes. Little Jela embodies several members of my own family which is predominantly composed of women – mothers, grandmothers, sisters and aunts.
Director: Ana Husman
Duration: 24 min
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Pacific Vein
"Pacific Vein" takes us through a painterly panorama of the US West. Julian Assange stands between imperial, Roman fake buildings as a soda maker and ponders the digitalization of our world. Around him, hippies, artists and homeless people search for meaning while their messages are captured by surveillance cameras. Media and fictional scenes merge hypnotically with documentary footage. The empire is diligent (fitness, self-optimization) and nervous (military, weapons), the American Dream glitched into a ghostly autosuggestion. Where is the enemy and who has the image rights? For now, we need a hefty dose of the vitalizing energy drink to make our heavy thoughts seem light.
Director: Ulu Braun
Duration: 12 min
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For Here Am I Sitting In a Tin Can Far Above the World
A woman dreams of the American cryptographer Hal Finney. A major economic crisis affects the cryptocurrency market, tens of thousands of people are cryogenized waiting for a better future. Are they suspended or falling into the void? What strange relationship do we have with the future?
Director: Gala Hernández López
Duration: 19 min
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Is this now the time I should let you go?
Like the scenery from a running train, memories are beautiful, blurry and keep changing. This is a film about a daughter’s feelings of losing her father.
After her 13 years processing of the loss, the author mixed video footage and analog film with animation techniques, and brought a diary-like atmosphere in this experimental animated documentary, to immerse the audience in the unspeakable feelings of losing a loved one.
Director: Yi-Chin Tsai
Duration: 9 min
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Valley Pride
Valley Pride represents one of California´s most important regions of industrial agriculture. Corporate agricultural production interests have been able to successfully cultivate and exploit this geological part of the Sonora desert through a gigantic irrigation system fed by the Colorado River, as well as the All-American Canal specifically engineered for this purpose and which attained sad notoriety through the Mexican migration movement. The system´s run-off flows through pipes, pumps and canals leading to the Salton Sea, an artificial lake that is approaching ecological as well as economic disaster, just as bordering regions of Mexico.
Director: Marxt Lukas
Duration: 13 min
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Beautiful Dead Woman
Out of 300 episodes of the German TV-series „Ein Fall für zwei (A Case for two)“, the short film „Beautiful Dead Woman“ re-arranges female death stagings. A short found footage montage about the obsession with and fetishization of female murder victims, about the staging of female passivity and about a culture of romanticized femicide.
Director: Jan Soldat
Duration: 7 min
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The third world after the sun
A transvestite ritual performed by the artists Analú Laferal and Tiagx Vélez, opens a portal and generates an encounter with a European missionary from the fifteenth century who has delved deep into the jungle in order to fight the belief of animals as divine.
Director: Tiagx Vélez,Analú Laferal
Duration: 20 min