Competition 5: Expecting Further
Sunday, 23.03.2025, 17:00 @ Blickle Kino im Belvedere 21
approx. 59 min
You Can’t Find Love
Tom Bessoir | 2024 | 2m | US
Radar Vienna INTERNATIONAL Award
After attending The Nova Convention in New York City in 1978, I was inspired by Brion Gysin to write permutation poems.
This experimental film is based on a permutation poem I wrote in 1979. It explores selective viewing by overloading the brain with different presentations of the same poem.
The poem was read by Ann Marie Guidry in 2024.
Mind the Gap
Sofia Afonasina | 2023 | 2m 46s | AT
Radar Vienna AUSTRIAN Award
A fragmented soul and a disembodied voice search for their place in an urban environment.
When the Moon Rises
Jiaqing Chen | 2024 | 2m 40s | UK
Radar Vienna INTERNATIONAL Award
When the Moon Rises is a poignant wartime love story, a pair of lover who are unwilling to part, initiating a dialogue interwoven with sincerity and lies. This is a film about longing, memories and the subconscious, which takes its inspiration from a kind of projective test in psychotherapy – the Rorschach inkblot that was invented after the end of World War II to treat traumatized soldiers came back from the war.
HORANGI
Lynn Kim | 2024 | 6m 38s | US
Radar Vienna INTERNATIONAL Award
HORANGI is an animated film based on a dream where I arose to find myself in a field of tigers. The film seeks to capture the feelings of fear, admiration, conflict and similarity between the tiger and myself, and envisions what kind of tenuous harmony we might find together.
Between Yawns
Alma Rajot | 2023 | 3m 55s | FR
Radar Vienna INTERNATIONAL Award
A character wakes up halfway… Still under the influence of sleep, his actions and visions will sometimes be shifted…
Tomokos Quest for Happieness
Veronika Frei | 2024 | 4m 30s | AT
Radar Vienna ANGEWANDTE ANIMATION AWARD
A young girl’s dreary world is transformed by a magical leaf, leading her on an adventure where imagination and reality blur.
Tomoko lives in a world stripped of color, confined to her small room where she draws vibrant pictures of nature. When a single green leaf is blown through her window, she reaches out to touch it, and the world around her transforms into a lush, vibrant landscape.
Embryo
Janka Kocisek | 2024 | 1m 5s | AT
Radar Vienna ANGEWANDTE ANIMATION AWARD
In a sleepy town where the impossible becomes normal, the story begins with an ordinary pigeon. This pigeon suddenly has a strange transformation: it grows a human ear. This film is a magical surreal trip, through various spaces, encountering absurd situations.
Yarn Over
Veronika Wielach | 2024 | 4m 10s | UK
Radar Vienna ANGEWANDTE ANIMATION AWARD
Yarn Over is a stop motion animation about loneliness in older adults. The short film tells the story of a widowed man finding solace in a local knitting group.
ABYSS
Neo Klinger | 2023 | 3m | AT
Radar Vienna AUSTRIAN Award
In a dark city, an ominous, luminous sphere hits the ground. As soon as the sphere starts displaying a countdown, the existence of the whole city seems to be on a knives edge.
Her Dress for the Final
Martina Mestrovic | 2023 | 8m 45s | HR
Radar Vienna INTERNATIONAL Award
One day my granny dyed her wedding dress black. She wanted to be buried in it.
Flickering Bond
Emil Petra-Szöke | 2023 | 3m 56s | AT
Radar Vienna ANGEWANDTE ANIMATION AWARD
Tim, a member of the school newspaper team, finds himself in a bizarre situation. Sitting in the school hallway, he becomes aware that something has happened. However, the details elude him, yet he’s certain it was anything but trivial. Slowly, he begins to gain insights into the events.
Laute Stille
Leo Roithner, Lisa Bayr, Katharina Arbeithuber, Lukas Brandstetter | 2024 | 4m 14s | AT
Radar Vienna ANGEWANDTE ANIMATION AWARD
The german saying „Don´t paint the devil on the wall” is portrayed by combining wall paintings and digital paintings, exploring the impact of human sensory loss.
Hypnhadiqa
Chris Sagovac | 2024 | 5m 30s | US
Radar Vienna INTERNATIONAL Award
Hypn: Sleep – Hadiqa: Garden – Hypnotic: Tending to produce sleep.
Paradisial dream gardens drift upon threshold consciousness.
Hypnhadiqa is an experiment using imagery from hand woven rugs to represent hallucinogenic fantasmata encountered in the waning state of consciousness during the onset of sleep. The kaleidoscopic sequence, in this transitional state of reception, is intended to unlock the hypnagogic cognitive state of the viewer.
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Vuk Jevremovic | 2022 | 5m 28s | HR
Radar Vienna INTERNATIONAL Award
Three masters of football. They can perform wonders during the match and score impossible goals, but what goes on in their heads when they are about to take penalty kicks?