ALCHEMY, MAGIC AND MYSTERY
CURATED BY NIKOLA GOCIć
8.12.2024. | 19:00 | MUSEUM OF YUGOSLAV FILM ARCHIVE (KOSOVSKA 11)
DECADENTIA
GUILLAUME ANGLARD | 2024 | 09:35 | FRANCE | 16mm
Like an archive, DECADENTIA reveals, in a post-apocalyptic atmosphere, the vestiges of an unknown civilization.
IMMORTALS
MARK DURAND | 2023 | 05:28 | CANADA | 8mm
Immortals is an experimental documentary short film shot in 8mm that explores the introspection of an artist, Bettina Szabo. The film delves into her relationship with her sense of belonging, her body, her imagination, and nature. Sometimes one must lose oneself to find oneself better, and burn everything down to start anew on a solid foundation.
COLIBRI
SEBASTIAN VACCARIS | 2024 | 04:02 | AUSTRALIA | 16mm
Could film gelatin, a 16mm film camera, 3 lenses and film developing chemistry experimentation act as messengers between the spirit and the physical world? A one day trip to the remote town of Panguipulli (Chile) seeks to explore possibilities and to also expand on the power of audio frequencies as a healing instrument.
TURIYA
SARANG VINAYAK JOSHI | 2022 | 04:38 | INDIA | 16mm
A being is trapped in the endless cycle of birth and death, navigating the four states of consciousness as described in Advaita Vedanta: deep sleep, the illusory dream state, gross material reality, and Turiya. Throughout her life, she goes through the experience of pleasure, fear, suffering, and the mundane, all while searching for "the self". As she progresses, she realizes the cyclic, material, and impermanent nature of reality. In a moment of intense pleasure, she breaks free from the gross material world and reaches the ultimate state of consciousness—the infinite, Turiya.
THREE MYSTICS
ioanna filippopoulou | 2023 | 08:34 | GREECE | 16mm
Three mystics, poetess Rabia Al Basra, writer Marguerite Porete and poetess Akka Mahadevi are each making a ritual.
Those women refused the life they were forced to live and devoted themselves to their Gods. Their devotional spirit is an indication of a somekind erotic union with the Divine giving extended dimensions to the spirituality of the Female, which is usually related to the archetype of the Mother.
WIND DESCENDS, DUST RISES
JAEL JACOBO | 2024 | 05:50 | MEXICO | 16mm
Wind descends, dust rises shows the transit of a woman who realizes that her soul is outside her body or mask.
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