Timetable

Focus: Short Film Programme II

Reviewing nature film

Which formal and aesthetic approaches can be helpful for encounters with otherness in a more-than-human sense? Experimental short films seem especially suited, literally unhinging the visual axes with abstract, yet directly emotional styles. The film-makers make witty use of the whole gamut of artistic tricks they possess to deconstruct wildlife films as a genre, for example exaggeratedly searching for the perfect shot of an animal, the object of desire, only to then deny us this shot.

Lea

Nina Yuen

US
2014
Experimental
6’
OFe

»Now, they are coming together.« (Nina Yuen) Off-screen we hear antlers crashing against each other: two deer are fighting. On-screen […]

SE
2002
Experimental
3’
OW

»My work has three main characteristics. One is my interest in the relation between animals and humans. In my Animal […]

CA
2018
Experimental Documentary
15’
OFe

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is sacred land to the indigenous First Nations community of Canada; it is also an […]

The Flies (The Birds II)

Susann Maria Hempel

DE
2010
Experimental
8’
OW

Susann Maria Hempel visits the ruins of her former home in Greiz and explores the beauty of decay. Her film […]