SATURDAY, SEPT 10, from 18:30
AT PEASANT MUSEUM CINEMA

BIDFF's third competitive section finds the body in challenging places and positions anchored in a counterintuitive movement to the space it occupies. The protagonists of these film productions bump into social taboos in the Netherlands, occupy abandoned theaters in Panama, or refuse to be forced to leave their homes in the UK. In Ectopic Zones, the world is seen as a juxtaposition of form, light, color, and movement, constantly generating captivating dissociations of meaning.

THE WALL

14:34, 2020, UA
D: Vladyslav Detiuchenko
C: Vladyslav Detiuchenko

The Berlin Wall is a symbol of totalitarianism, social separation and restriction. Therefore, the fall of the wall can be seen as a symbol of liberty and human rights. The Wall uses body language to show its own view on liberty, love, individuality and freedom beyond borders.

FIST

13:01, 2022, NL
D: Thomas Bos
C: Erik Bos

Patrick is angry and he wants to break everything around him. When attending a forced anger-management course he meets other enraged people from different backgrounds. An experimental therapist tries to force their brutal energy out through dance. Can Patrick find a way to direct his violent energy towards something that is valuable for him, or even worthwhile for others?

VARIEDADES

12:28, 2021, PA
D: Marlyn Attie, Mauro Colombo
C: Marlyn Attie

Five bodies explore the debris of an abandoned early 20th century Theater in the heart of Latin America. The Variedades Theater, once a cultural gem now lives in disguise in front of the busiest street of Panama City. It was once meant for prestigious live performance, and as decades flew by it became a cinema, later a porn cinema, until its oblivion. Few locals know of its history and current state, but choreographer Marlyn Attie’s curiosity brought her to rediscover the unusual spaces of this theater with her dancers and collaborators.

HANGING ON

10:20, 2021, UK
D: Alfie Barker

A docu-drama spotlighting the strength of community in a neighbourhood united when faced with eviction.

AG:AU

3:13, 2021, UK
D: Alex Cantouris

Two young gods embark on a journey to create a new world. The film was shot on one cartridge of Super 8mm film with only in-camera edits and no post-production.

ABYSS

13:26, 2022, DK
D: Google’s Image Recognition AI, Jeppe Lange
NOTE: The film is not recommended for young viewers and viewers with epilepsy.

Abyss is a chain of 10.000 images found through Google’s reverse image search. The visual development is based on the misunderstandings that happen in the AI’s reading of the image material. The AI doesn’t care about scale, emotions or context but are only interested in patterns, colours and correlations.

We are watching a primal chaos before the creation of an artificial consciousness.

And the awakening consciousness is looking back at us as a species.