SAT JUN 27 - 4:30pm
CASINO
Pupa by Antia Carreira | ESP | 11'
Video essay that explores the relationship with the body in non-binary trans people between 20 and 30 years old in Galicia, questioning the cis norm that imposes limits on identity. Through images between the natural and the surgical, the transformation begins with the opening of a chrysalis. A being without wings emerges, marked before birth, in a wound that only the network of affections can suture. A reflection on collective resistance and the possibility of existing without renouncing society.
Magia comestibilis by Nazif Can AKÇALI | FRA, TRK | 13'
Magia comestibilis is a film that explores our relationship with food through a reflection on longevity, biohacking, symbiosis and gastronomy. It explores the possibility of creating food out of the collaboration between humans, bacteria and artificial intelligence, a food that may help develop immortality. The film brings together the food traditions of Sardinia’s Blue Zone and the practices of contemporary biohackers. On the one hand, the Sardinian centenarians embody an ancestral wisdom based on simplicity, the land and social ties; on the other, the biohackers explore the limits of life through science, technology and new diets. In this dialogue, artificial intelligence creates the link between ancestral knowledge and contemporary innovation: it generates recipes based on biohacking products, food from the Blue Zones and scientific data. These dishes are then made and eaten in the film. Somewhere between art, science and gastronomy, Magia comestibilis invites us to reflect on life and death, placing food at the centre of our biological transformation.
Confession by Gianni Romeo | ITA | 04'
Three churches. One confession.
MyOPIA by Maria Lückerath | BEL | 20'
A sonic dive into an inner world whilst an eye surgery process unfolds.
Abortion Party by Julia Mellen | ESP | 13'
After managing to scrape together money to pay for an abortion after her Polish exchange student boyfriend gets her pregnant, the director decides to celebrate with a party. In attendance are her geriatric ska musician neighbor, semi-retired gang affiliates, her dirty gay roomate, and ever present bedbugs.
Vertical Remains by Aadi Bhandari | CAN | 12'
Time ascends as history sinks. Through thirty-two upward-tilting shots across the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, Canada, Vertical Remains excavates regional histories of Indigenous presence, colonial violence, and ecological transformation. As images shift from color to monochrome and sound descends against the camera’s rise, chronology collapses. Archival images, composite landscapes, and a descending sonic register unsettle linear narration, reframing the present as accumulated residue, and the land emerges as an unresolved archive, where history persists vertically beneath contemporary space.
