Edition: Fourth Edition

DEZO HOFFMANN – PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE BEATLES

Dezo Hoffmann, a legendary photographer of the Beatles, was born in Slovakia in 1912. He  lived most of his life in the UK, while his photographs conquered the world; yet he died almost forgotten. He captured the horrors of multiple war fronts and later laid the foundations of modern pop photography. Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra, […]

Dear Kevin

A desire for connection compels a woman to realign with her true self. Director Biography – Kate Ferguson Kate Ferguson (USA) is a writer, filmmaker, and analog photographer who has lived and worked in Los Angeles and Mexico City. Her multidisciplinary practice is rooted in an appreciation for the threshold moments where transformation occurs and […]

LIGHTHOUSE

Lighthouse is a single-channel video work filmed in Inubōsaki, Japan, focusing on the sea and passing ships near a lighthouse. Through extended, steady shots, the work explores water as a temporal field—marked by repetition, suspension, and gradual change. Time unfolds slowly, allowing subtle movements to accumulate and perception to drift. The visual language is closely […]

Reconnaissances

Reconnaissances is an art film in French, Italian and German. It revolves around the idea of landscape, taken both as an internal and external phenomenon. It is also an exploration of the relationships between speech and image, portrait and landscape, nature and history, philosophy and poetry, and intertwines various media: film, speech, ceramics, painting. I […]

Violence Solves Everything

A study of death scenes and endings, under the Hays code era of Hollywood (1934-1968) and beyond. Director Biography – John Ledingham     John Ledingham is a Victoria BC filmmaker working in music videos and experimental, no-budget documentary. Director Statement “Violence Solves Everything” is an experimental collage of endings and deaths scenes from the […]

Z van zelfredzaamheid / S for self reliance

We follow a class with adult refugees in the Netherlands. The final meeting with the municipality is almost approaching. This way they can complete the so-called Z-route, and they are officially integrated. The Z-route consists of 800 hours of language lessons and 800 participation hours. These participants usually had very little education as children. Some […]

versus

Versus (2024), set in the archetypal landscape of the Lucanian “calanchi” gives rise to a feminine procession of care and repair, in which black cloths intertwine with the fissures of the earth and the shadows cast by sunlight, almost as if to mend its wounds. The performance, documented in video and photography, is accompanied by […]

HYPATIA OF ALEXANDRIA -the solitary bee-

A philosopher like Aristotle, Hypatia of Alexandria tried to understand Nature ,in it’s entirely! Too much of a free spirit, she was murdered by christian mob in 415 AD. In the 20 th century she became a Feminist icon and a symbol for women’s rights. Director Biography – ERWAN LE GAL Erwan Le Gal . […]

Kecka

This short documentary follows the daily life and creative process of its subject, observing how they work, move, and exist within their personal space. Set in a quiet, intimate environment, the film focuses on the relationship between the artist and their craft, capturing moments of concentration, repetition, and care. As the process unfolds, the artist […]

Shards of absence

A young woman finds the courage to confront the absences preserved within her memory, inhabiting an empty house suspended in time. In this place of loss, the trace of a presence still survives. Through the realm of dreams, she encounters a woman from her past, still alive in her pure essence. By allowing herself to […]