❗ Trigger/content warning: violence, explosions, gunshots, suicide attempt
Additional screening: 18 September / 20:10 / Classic hall
Free Fall into Uncertainty explores the paradoxes of the digital age, where technology offers vast opportunities that we continually misuse.
Mass media and social platforms dictate which tragedies are too delicate to acknowledge, exposing the absurdity of a world where Stone Age barbarism coexists with cutting-edge technology. The freedom to be watched has replaced the freedom to be heard, and trends now outweigh human lives. We delve into the profound uncertainty that defines our era, questioning whether we are truly advancing or simply teetering on the brink of self-destruction in a world where the line between progress and regression is increasingly blurred.
SENSITIVE CONTENT
Director: Narges Kalhor
Country: Iran
Duration: 9
Behind the SENSITIVE CONTENT behind this symbol of the crossed-out eyes, in this Deep Blur, two real eyes have been erased by the violence in the Middle East. This Deep Blur video is about the
eyewitnesses who do not look away, who remain there, with their fainting eyes and their trembling hands, recording the SENSITIVE CONTENT. They are risking their lives, fighting for visibility.
I'M NOT A ROBOT
Director: Victoria Warmerdam
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 22
After several unsuccessful attempts to complete a Captcha, feminist Lara sets out to answer the disturbing question of whether she's a robot, and therefore bought by her own boyfriend.
Hi! You Are Currently Being Recorded
Director: Kyle Greenberg, Anna Maguire
Country: USA
Duration: 8
On a trip to Los Angeles to visit a new flame, Anna finds herself lost, stoned and alone…or is she?
WILDMEN OF THE GREATER TORONTO AREA
Director: Solmund MacPherson
Country: Canada
Duration: 12
Fed up with the cost of living in Canada's most populous city, the citizens of Toronto begin renouncing their personhood en masse to legally become animals, forming a society of Wildmen in the city's vast ravine network.
ARDENT OTHER
Director: Alice Brygo
Country: France
Duration: 16
A stunned crowd looks on in horror, disgust, concern, disinterest and awe—at what, we don't know. The mob's interest is slowly revealed using a morphing technique and by blurring live-action reality and 3D virtual space. Stoked by contradictory information, conspiracies and divisive opinions, a burning rage threatens to incinerate more than just an edifice but an entire institution, system and symbol of civilization.