Synopsis
TERRA MATER – MOTHERLAND
Technology and waste, in our lands, our systems, our bones. Wandering our spaces, she cannot help but wonder, where is the space for healing?
PACIFIC VEIN
PACIFIC VEIN takes us through a painterly US panorama. Assange stands between ancient columns, hippies and energy drinks and ponders the digitalization of our world. Media scenes merge hypnotically with documentary footage. The empire is diligent (self-optimization) and nervous (weapons), the American Dream glitched into a ghostly autosuggestion. Where is the enemy and who has the image rights?
KAALKAPJE
Nowadays, the hospital welcomes me as a medical miracle. It feels ungrateful to admit I’m not very keen on living to doctors who’ve done everything to save me. I’ve been cured, but not without being physically and mentally damaged during the treatment. Through the lens of my father’s camera, I look back at a period of my life of which I remember nothing. Twenty years after surviving cancer as a child, I search for traces of illness between scars and desires.
CIRCLE
The girl draws a circle on the ground.
Passersby step into it, one by one.
Soon the circle is full of people, struggling to stay within.
Once the girl returns and erases the circle, people start heading their way.
ADIEU TORTUE
Inci’s mother is dead. That day, while maundering in the deserted plateaus of the Black Sea, the young Inci meets Zeynep. Back in the region after a long absence, Zeynep carries a bulky black bag. Even if they are total strangers, Inci and Zeynep join their solitude for a while, wandering over the foggy and sunny mountains, from one father to the other, from dawn to darkness.
