Lab – Experiment and New Ways

Empire (Edouard Salier / France / 2005 / 4min.)
The Pax Americana ensures peace and guarantees comfort and prosperity… An idyllic view of the new Empire.

Obras (Hendrick Dusollier / France / 2004 / 12min.)
In a single take, Obras is a poetic and graphic journey through time and space, exploring Barcelona's wild irreversible destruction and reconstruction. In a virtual 3D space, Obras offers a rich interpretation of urban mutations.

Contamination (Carl Stevenson / United Kingdom / 2003 / 6min.)
A nightmare or a glimpse of a future where genetic manipulation has spiraled out of control? A strange menagerie of hybrid creatures is the result.

Quietsch (Baran Bo Odar / Germany / 2004 / 8min.)
This visually stunning, inventive short film is a kind of musical, one with noises, creaking beds and three unruly kids. Packed full of curious sounds and surprises.

We Have Decided Not to Die (Daniel Askill / Australia / 2004 / 12min.)
Three bodies, three places, three rituals and three stages of human life. A mystical film that mingles commercial spots and video for a rich visual blend that is at once art, ritual and fantasy. Eleven minutes that change time into energy, ignore gravity and abolish space.

Délices (Gérard Cairaschi / France / 2002 / 10min.)
When fast moving film shots suddenly overlap, you may see some things that only exist in your mind.

Arrive (Ed Holdsworth / United Kingdom / 2003 / 5min.)
An almost abstract memory of arrival to Tokyo. A magically captured moment of an explosion of intoxicating audio-visual impulses.

Copy Shop (Virgil Widrich / Austria / 2001 / 12min.)
A man wakes up and goes to work like on any other day. But when accidentally copies his hand at the office, his day suddenly spirals out of control.

You Are My Favourite Chair (Robert Hardy / United Kingdom / 2003 / 12min.)
A man and a woman book a hotel room where they will dine, dance, make love, fight, deteriorate mentally and physically and die.

Surrational Cityscaping I:“De Rerum Natura” - om verdens natur (Torben Skjødt Jensen / Denmark / 2004 / 8min.)
A poetic visual meditation about time, vicissitude and being.

Overtime (Oury Atlan - Thibaut Berland - Damien Ferrié / France / 2004 / 5min.)
A wordless, 3D opera about a group of puppets who one morning find their creator lying on his workbench, dead. They don't understand death, so try to live their normal lives.

More about the films on the festival's webpage here.