2022 NOMINATIONS
BEST
INTERNATIONAL FILM
GRID
dir. Alexandre Alagôa
Nominated for Best International Film
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A ritual of grids, reflections and chasms; a complete state of entropy; a space that devours itself; a vertigo that destroys the gravity of the Earth; a trap that captures us inside the voids of the screen of light: «That blank arena wherein converge at once the hundred spaces» (Hollis Frampton).
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XCTRY
dir. Bill Brown
Nominated for Best International Film
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Leaving one hometown and looking for the next one.
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Lightmare
dir. Josh Drake
Nominated for Best International Film
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Lightmare was inspired by a group of youths who used to race motorcycles by my house. They would sometimes ride when I was trying to get my young daughter to sleep and caused great aggravation for me. The neighbors became quite worried as well and eventually the police were engaged to stop the racing, unsuccessfully. Stories began to spread about who the youths were and what poor conditions their parents were raising them in. The film attempts to capture the anxiety of the neighborhood, using negative space as a mask to subvert the audience’s expectations of horizon and depth. In contrast, much of the content underscores the triviality of the perceived threat. High levels of film grain enhance the effects of pareidolia, paralleling the human impulse to create stories for the unknown riders.
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BOOKANIMA: Dance
dir. Shon Kim
Nominated for Best International Film
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BOOKANIMA, a compound word of ‘Book’ and ‘Anima’, is Experimental Animation to give new cinematic life to book.
It aims to create ‘Book Cinema’ in the third scope between Book and Cinema. Animation links Book to Cinema. Along the way, it experiments Locomotion based on Chronophotography Animation, paying homage for Edward Muybridge and Entienne Jules-Marey.
It experiments locomotion of Dance along with its stream: Ballet-Korean dance-Modern dance-Jazz dance-Aerial Silk-Tap dance-Aerobic-Disco-Break dance-Hip hop-Social dance.
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Unfold
dir. John Graham
Nominated for Best International Film
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UNFOLD is a poetic laboratory that visually symbolizes the unpredictable revealing of oneself to another in friendship.
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Mørk
dir. Iøp Ersevero
Nominated for Best International Film
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Come out into the open
we ran in jerks
we ran again
suddenly we became shadows
things happen in the dark
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HONORABLE
MENTIONS:
The guy on the bed
dir. Mike Hoolboom
Honourable Mention
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News from another pandemic, the one that ‘changed everything’ before it fell out of the news cycle and collective memory, except for the newly infected, or those who, like myself, managed a new life after death. Based on a text by David Wojnarowicz.
ROYGBIV (before the end, the lights shine bright)
dir. Rebecca Shapass
Honorable Mention
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The hour of transition between day and night – night and day – is referred to as blue hour. Mirroring itself like bookends, this hour of saturated blue sky marks a moment of transition in the cyclical nature of intervalic time. Working in the mode of a flâneur, the filmmaker constructs a meditative portrait of blue hour & the urban constructions that frame it. The film observes modes of connective and enforced time-keeping through human-made infrastructures gridding the sky & ground such as street lights, trains, electrical cabling, and alleys. How do these human interventions create, harmonize with, and disrupt the rhythms of the earth’s rotation and the way living beings exist within it?
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