SEPT 5 / 21:00 / AMFITEATRU TEATRUL MASCA
SEPT 6 / 18:30 / CINÉMA ELVIRE POPESCO
SEPT 8 / 16:00 / Peasant Museum Cinema
Land of Fluid Outlines is a collection of nine intimate stories about the fragile and powerful connections between the body, identity, and the environment. These short films challenge social norms through a series of simple gestures, body language and atmospheres. Lua searches the streets of a hostile city for a bird named Memory, while a young woman confronts her inner demons. In another corner of the world, a love story is documented in an intimate slideshow, while Noora finds freedom and expression through dance, either on the ground or in the water. The body becomes a medium of free self-expression, through which it confronts personal, social, and temporal challenges.
* The screening is not suitable for children. Free entry, based on prior registration, for the September 5 screening at Amfiteatru Teatrul Masca.
A BIRD CALLED MEMORY
15:06, 2023, BR
D: Leonardo Martinelli
C: Soraya Bastos
A bird called Memory has forgotten how to come back home. Lua, a trans woman, tries to find Memory in the streets, but the city can be a hostile place.
CARMEN
4:35, 2023, USA
D: Carla Forte
Carmen is an experimental short film in which the character tells the story through her body, creating new body language.
FORWARD BACK
13:24, 2023, CA
D: Mistaya Hemingway, Kaveh Nabatian
C: Erin Flynn, Isabelle Poirier, Mistaya Hemingway
With movement inspired by Merce Cunningham’s iconic piece 50 Looks, a group of dancers move together through a vast landscape seemingly plucked from an alternate future. Just as changing light infiltrates the choreography, so do 35mm negative manipulations, compelling the dancers to engage with forces beyond time.
SLOW DANCE (ZOOMED IN): BASIC MOVES 1
7:31, 2024, HK
D: Kitty Yeung
C: Joseph Lee
Slow Dance (Zoomed In): Basic Moves 1 attempts to reverse the temporality of some original dance forms, extending and transcending the rhythmic and coherent dynamics of traditional performances.
LISTEN
13:53, 2023, PT
D: Rodrigo Rebello de Andrade
C: Magalie Lanriot, Roel Q Seeber
A vertical dance piece about the end of a relationship and the complexity of emotions involved in a breakup. Vertical dance is used as a metaphoric aesthetic where the dancer’s relationship with gravity generates tension as they navigate the difficulties of dealing with change, the conflict between, the fear of falling and the desire to fly. The poetry of suspended intimacy and physicality is born, expressing the balance between closeness and isolation, the emptiness of the end and the struggle for acceptance.
NOORA
7:40, 2024, FI
D: Anna Kekkonen
Noora has congenital bone fragility, Osteogenesis Imperfecta. She uses a wheelchair as a dancing aid and in it, she can move widely, but feels isolated from the surrounding environment. She is searching ways to move, focusing on possibilities rather than on limitations. On the ground, she feels the ground against her skin. In the water she can let go of her wheelchair. Noora’s toes sink into the mud bottom, which pulsates with her steps. The water supports her fragile body with its pressure and surrounded by it she dares to move more freely, her body is more elastic, her expressions and range of motion are greater.
SHAME
4:27, 2024, LB
D: Hadi Moussally
In the 19th century, in the Levant region, Salma Zahore, along with her parents and neighbors, participated in a photoshoot using a long exposure technique. At the end of it, Salma decided to take off her coat, revealing her body. Unaware of the chaos this gesture could cause within her circle, she did not know it could lead to shame (عيب).
YOU CAN’T GET WHAT YOU WANT BUT YOU CAN GET ME
13:04, 2024, NL
D: Samira Elagoz, Z Walsh
A unique slideshow documenting two long-haired trans men falling in love. Over the course of one year, the artist couple gathered photographs from real-life events such as their first kiss, meeting each other's parents, long-distance thirst traps, a beach wedding, and top surgery and its subsequent recovery. A sweet and steamy celebration of T4T love with life and art all tangled up.
AS THE CALL, SO THE ECHO
6:20, 2024, NL
D: Alex Raúl
A young woman finds herself in conflict with her inner demons – a riveting confrontation with her unknown self.