VISTAS II /
VISTAS II /
Curated programme by the festival team
Rule No. 5: Shadow Your Man Closely
Miro Manojlović, Croatia, 2023, DCP, B&W, 10', bd
Rule No. 5: Shadow Your Man Closely assembles a film loop collage out of Buster Keaton's Sherlock Jr. train scene. One shot becomes the base for specific editing procedures throughwhich the film narrative is reconstructed and a new plot is created.
Why are you image plus?
Diogo Baldaia, Portugal, 2023, DCP, colour, 8' 45'', svp
In a small and poor village, a local Saint controls the realm of the abyss, making it impossible for dead people to talk to their loved ones who are still living. Ima, a curious dead child, tries to meet the Saint, so he can let her talk to her beloved grandmother.
I Would Rather Be a Stone
Radije bih bila kamen, Ana Hušman, Croatia, 2024, digital format, colour, 23' 45'', ap, svp
Through the voice of Little Jela, the film tells the story of the events that marked a generation and shaped the future of the landscape of Lika, a neglected and sparsely populated region of Croatia. The living conditions impacted on the personal lives of the people who lived there, their solitude, relationships, opportunities, apprehensions and hopes. Little Jela embodies several members of author’s family which is predominantly composed of women – mothers, grandmothers, sisters and aunts.
Sensitive content
Narges Kalhor, Germany/Iran, 2023, DCP, B&W/colour, 8' 45'', ap, svp
Mahsa Amini dies after being beaten by the morality police. Demonstrations follow, bringing together thousands of women severely repressed by the regime. Narges Kahlor explores the videos of these revolts published on social media, paying tribute to these defenders of the people armed with telephones.
The Electric Kiss
Rainer Kohlberger, Austria, 2024, DCP, colour, 17' 45'', bd
The Electric Kiss imagines a world not unlike our own, in which people plug their brains into a kind of neuro-network that connects the whole of human consciousness. A quasi-plot emerges: a man in a VR headset, literally and figuratively lost in space, subjects himself to a mysterious procedure to alleviate the ill effects of this new technology on the mind.
WARNING: Some programmes contain films with strong flashing light and sound signals.
Ana Hušman (1977, Croatia). Her practice disassembles the structures and textures of cinematic elements through film, installation, books, sound, image and text. Hušman experiments with the possibilities of animation, documentary and fictional cinematic methods, and the possibilities of recorded voice and its articulation. She teaches at the Department of Animation and New Media at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, and is a co-founder of the documentary film organisation RESTART where she has been holding film education programs for children and young people for many years. Since 2003, she is a member of Pangolin, anartist-run organisation working in film, visual arts and research practices, where she produces films, books and other works. Her works have been shown at film festivals and exhibitions worldwide.
Rainer Kohlberger (1982, Austria) is a freelance visual artist living in Berlin. His work is primarily based on algorithmically generated graphics that are exposed in live performances, experimental films and installations. For his work field he won the ZKM App Art Award for artistic innovation. He received the Crossing Europe Local Artist Award 2013 for his work humming, fast and slow.
Miro Manojlović (1985, Croatia) works in music, film and theatre. Since 2014 he has been working as an Art Associate at Academy of Dramatic Art and cooperates with numerous artists at home and abroad. His experimental films Showgirls(2011) and Klopka za mag.. i česte udaljenosti(2019) won Maksimilijan Paspa Awards. He has created music for numerous films, theatre and dance performances, and actively works as a film author, editor and music composer. In his free time he is devoted to exploring merry mysteries of sound and vision.
Narges Kalhor (1984, Iran) was born and raised in Tehran. After graduating from high school in 2001, she began to study feature film Tehran Film School to study feature film directing. She is mentored by various well-known filmmakers such as Abbas Kiarostami. In 2007, she continues to study visual communication at Kamalolmolk University. At the same time she is working as film editor at the advertising film agency ARASB in Tehran and shoots 5 short films. In the Name of Scheherazade will celebrate its world premiere at Vision Du Réel and will be awarded the prize by the Goethe Institute for the best documentary at the Dok-Leipzig Film Festival. Narges received in 2019 Kulturpreis Bayern and a year later Starter-Filmpreis of the city of Munich. The film screened at several internatonal festivals and received a Swiss theatrical release through Cinélibre distribution in February 2020.
Diogo Baldaia (1992, Portugal) is a filmmaker and assistant director. He studied at the Lisbon Theatre and Film School (ESTC) and at KASK, in Ghent, for a Master’s degree in Fine Arts (Video). His student films Fúria(2013) and Vulto (2014) were shown at international film festivals including IndieLisboa, Doclisboa and Curtas de Vila do Conde, and were also exhibited at festivals in Canada, China and Austria. His latest film Why Are You Image Plus? (2023) was selected for IFFR 2023 as part of the Ammodo Tiger Short Competition.