All Films in Competition

It is May 6th, 2023, the day of the Coronation of King Charles III in London, and a young man calls Emergency Medical Services claiming the whole thing is making him feel unwell. “Thronebosis” imagines this scenario, making use of manipulated news footage of the day’s events mixed with animation to illustrate the man’s concerns in a punk-infused poetic form.

Shot entirely from an apartment on the 36th floor of a high-rise building, the images in this experimental animation survey large parts of Hong Kong’s cityscape, drawing attention to the individual lives hidden inside its buildings – together alone, collectively sequestered. Initially recorded in 2020 during lockdown and completed in 2023 with the advantage of critical distance, TWENTYTИƎWT (“Twenty-Twenty”) attempts to encapsulate the darkness, confinement, and uncertainty of the year of the global pandemic.

Between drug addiction, first discoveries of sexuality and a permanent state of war, the filmmaker searches for her lost youth by wandering the streets of Jerusalem.

The upper image in this film is a single shot underneath a road bridge where it crosses over a river. The images in the lower sequence are close-up shots of the surface of the water under the bridge. They are arranged in no particular order, and their appearance may be reminiscent of abstract paintings.

The film explores the idea of invisible images in landscape which the British painter Paul Nash wrote about in a Country Life magazine article in May 1938: “The landscapes I have in mind are not part of the unseen world in the psychic sense, nor are they part of the Unconscious. They belong to the world that lies, visibly, about us. They are unseen merely because they are not perceived; only in that way can they be regarded as invisible.”

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.

Love punch love.

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.