Begona Colomar
United States
2015 | 0:20:00

"Contra" - as against - against the elements Xtian struggles with the impossible. Man versus nature. The film presents the universal question that emerges after the loss of a loved one, and its recurrent challenge. Xtian is the one left behind who must reconcile his overwhelming feelings of guilt, impotence and ire with his desire to honor his love's (Clara's) decision to take her own life. This is Xtians biggest predicament and the conflict that will bring him to face an impossible challenge at the end of the film.

Sam Barnes
Australia
2015 | 0:11:15

Dream Reel is about the impassable yet ambiguous gulf between the world of dreams and the reality experienced in waking life. The short film is an insight into the conscious minds of three ordinary people and their interpretations of the unconscious realms experienced in their dreams. From recurring childhood dreams, nightmares, to dreams that are inherently absurd, Dream Reel explores how dreams can have a hermetically sealed existence of their own, while sometimes they can unearth the deepest parts of the soul.

John Manceau
Sweeden
2015 | 0:03:25

See to synopsis in french.

William Horne
Great Britain
2015 | 0:02:30

Exploring themes of futility and redemption. Wræccan is a visual accompaniment to 3 differing poems combined into one stopmotion animation film. Wræccan is written and performed entirely in Old English : A form of the English language prior to the Norman invasion. It was last spoken approximately 1200AD. This anachronistic spectacle reflects the feelings of futileness the subject of the poem has been forced to bear. It is subtitled in modern English.

Max Philipp Schmid
Switzerland
2015 | 0:15:00

"Paradise“ interweaves texts, documentary images and sounds into a cluster of questions. How do we imagine paradise? How does what we imagine manifest itself in front gardens and urban landscaping? Is paradise, the ideal world, to be found in the untamed wilderness? Why are all the small paradises made by humans fenced in? Is a fence perhaps a prerequisite for paradise? The video explores the current societal tendency toward withdrawal and separation within the framework of a yearning for an ideal way of life closely linked to Nature.

Jukka-Pekka Jalovaara
Finlande
2014 | 0:07:00

I need to get to the space" Being a cosmonaut is a demanding task. When you are not granted a new launching pad - it is almost impossible.

Erin Coates
Australia
2015 | 0:12:45

A ghostly remnant from the activities of an old whaling station is awakened by a young scrimshander. Set in the coastal town of Albany, Cetaphobia is a ghost story which traces the haunting and ultimate misfortune of a married couple troubled by a whale spirit. The obscure and ambiguous spirit is an unsettling remnant of the Port City’s once viable whaling industry. Its presence is awakened after the wife, who is a scrimshander, starts inscribing on the only remaining evidence of its life: a tooth. This action unleashes a dark and cetaceous force which possesses the scrimshander and her husband and draws them back to the site of the Cheynes II, the sunken wreck of the whale chaser, where they are eventually overcome by a disconcerting and unknowable horror.

Romain Vennekens
Belgium
2014 | 0:16:00


If you were asked “what is the sky?” you could not answer. You could only point upwards.

Gustavo Raulino
Brazil
2015 | 0:12:00

We are in a timeless scenario where a dry damof crackled soil represents a disintegrated city. We are in a timeless 2015, in a scenario where a dry dam of crackled soil represents the city of São Paulo. An only couple, Mariana and Renan, indwells this desert, the disintegrated city. In recognizing themselves in that context, both start to investigate the causes of the drought. Mariana writes a text to which Renan gives voice. They communicate in silence, while the voice-over poem weaves primordial images that alternate between the serene intimacy of the inside of the house and the arid hostility of the outer space. Little by little, their consciousness awaken to the lack that causes the lack of water: the lack of betweens, the disconnection of all bodies, the spiritual body and the material body, the body of one and the body of the other, the human body and the Earth body. The lack of water, substance of life, would also be the lack of the oceanic feeling of being part of a whole. As they start to see themselves in the problem and as the problem, the borders between dry and wet, life and death, spirit and matter, voice and text, begin to dissolve in the dust.