Milja Viita
Finland
2016 | 0:06:00

The artist’s firstborn son transformed, in the blink of an eye, into a young man. Q is a conceptual film about forces that change the world. Q takes us to the end of the worlds, the depths of the ocean and to the ruins of Atlantis. Q’s destruction is the road to new growth — it is the only promise of continuity and the emergence of new nations. Q is shot on 16 mm film whose surface has been hand-coloured. But what or who is Q?

Luísa Sequeira
Portugal
2016 | 00:08:00

Grandmother, mother, sister, niece and I... Four generations. Five women from the same family connected by water, blood and love.

Marc de Leeuw
Netherlands
2016 | 0:09:00

The nude body of a young woman lies motionless on a kitchen floor. In a nearby forest a man calls out for his dog. Their paths cross at a copy shop where it appears that the outwardly shy womanhas a strange obsession with her body image.

Josephine Massarella
Canada
2017 | 0:06:00

Shot entirely in 16mm black and white film using single frame photography, 165708 employs in-camera techniques and chemical manipulation of processed film to produce an eidetic study of temporal elasticity. Techniques include flicker, time-lapse, light painting, stop motion, tinting, and toning. Combined with cycles of alternating exposed frames, these methods imbue the work with a rhythmic magnetism, apparent both in the tempo and the aesthetic of the images.

Ellliot Spencer
Australie
2017 | 0:24:00

“Long Yearning” is a cinematic exploration of the lives of Chinese factory workers and the nature of repetitive industrialised work. The film is intermixed with written excerpts of traditional Chinese poetry, creating a surreal merging between modern and ancient China.

Penny McCann
Canada
2017 | 0:06:04

Erratic flashes of light spark across a flickering expanse of water and sky. The image itself can’t be contained as light and debris spill outside the frame. The random alchemy of hand-processing techniques creates a landscape that transcends the observable, edging into the sublime. This is the ninth work in my ongoing series of poetic landscape films. Gibraltar Point (transformed) was created during a residency at Artscape Gibraltar Point on Toronto Island. Shot on black and white 16mm film, hand-processed, then transferred digitally to 2k digital files with an ambient sound design by Michelle Irving.

Maria Ångerman
Finland
2016 | 0:22:12

Inspired by Margaret Duras’ play Agatha, juxtaposing images of humans to those of animals, the film is a cinematic meditation on loss of control. Built around three disparate scenes, it sets up a sense of disorientation to heighten the possibility of inhabiting a different perspective.

Marcela Alcade
Argentina
2017 | 0:03:07

All over Spain the remains of a building virus can be found. Abandoned buildingsites, streets without houses and empty appartment blocks that were never sold. Meanwhile on a global scale the honey bee is disappearing. Could there be a connection between the disappearance of our most important pollinator and this symbol of an infertile economic system?