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Igneous light, dir. Catalina Giordano
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“The eerie, by contrast, is constituted by a failure of absence or by a failure of presence. The sensation of the eerie occurs either when there is something present where there should be nothing, or is there is nothing present when there should be something” - Mark Fisher, The Weird and the Eerie.
Empty urban spaces, empty rural landscapes. In a crowded world, emptiness can haunt, or offer a welcome escape. From a deserted shopping mall to a ruined monastery haunted by the voice of Hildegard von Bingen, from a disturbing murder site in a modernist suburban house to a remote abandoned astronomical observatory. New inhabitants begin to occupy these spaces; skateboarders, ghosts, goats - repurposing for their own ends, a place to exist. A programme of new short films for lovers of the hauntological, or those interested in the psychogeography of forgotten spaces.
Cul-De-Sac, dir. Mário Macedo / Vanja Vascarac, Portugal 2023, 18mins
Talk to Me, dir. Bren Vienrich-Felling, USA 2024, 6mins
El Bon Auguri, dir. Alba Bresolu, Spain 2024, 14mins
Grobbendonk, dir. Benjamin Sprengers, Belgium 2023, 17mins
Yellowmeads, dir. Christian Burnett, UK 2024, 9mins
Lines, dir. Martin Schmidt, Germany 2024, 4mins
Igneous light, dir. Catalina Giordano, Argentina 2024, 9mins
perfectly a strangeness, Alison McAlpine, Canada 2024, 15mins
Empty urban spaces, empty rural landscapes. In a crowded world, emptiness can haunt, or offer a welcome escape. From a deserted shopping mall to a ruined monastery haunted by the voice of Hildegard von Bingen, from a disturbing murder site in a modernist suburban house to a remote abandoned astronomical observatory. New inhabitants begin to occupy these spaces; skateboarders, ghosts, goats - repurposing for their own ends, a place to exist. A programme of new short films for lovers of the hauntological, or those interested in the psychogeography of forgotten spaces.
Cul-De-Sac, dir. Mário Macedo / Vanja Vascarac, Portugal 2023, 18mins
Talk to Me, dir. Bren Vienrich-Felling, USA 2024, 6mins
El Bon Auguri, dir. Alba Bresolu, Spain 2024, 14mins
Grobbendonk, dir. Benjamin Sprengers, Belgium 2023, 17mins
Yellowmeads, dir. Christian Burnett, UK 2024, 9mins
Lines, dir. Martin Schmidt, Germany 2024, 4mins
Igneous light, dir. Catalina Giordano, Argentina 2024, 9mins
perfectly a strangeness, Alison McAlpine, Canada 2024, 15mins
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06:30 pm
Fri, 24 Jan 2025
Cinema 1
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Cinema 1
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