Selection 4: A Play
Sat 20 April 2013 - 20:30
Sun 21 April 2013 - 17:30
SPHINX cinema

Recent film and video by artists and filmmakers who open up new directions in the expanded field of contemporary moving image practice.

Continuity
Omer Fast, 2012, DE, HD, 40'

A couple is incapable of processing the death of a son in Afghanistan. The same scene repeats in various iterations.  What begins as an emotional story of homecoming grows strange with each repetition and ends as a nightmare. As the son struggles to make sense of his increasingly surreal and alien home, it's getting obvious he never returned ...

Gonda
Ursula Mayer, 2012, UK, HD, 30'

A poetic feature film evolves into a dazzling montage in which staged dialogues, close-up shots of paintings and exotic objects and gems come together. A staccato voice-over becomes a leading element. Her name is Gonda, after the actress in Ayn Rand’s play Ideal, and she is in a discussion with a group of young transgender characters ...