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Horror can reveal the insidious impositions afflicting society, ecology, geopolitical relations and our very bodies. The supernatural and occult can be a tangible force, bringing these oppressions into focus and directing us towards acts of resistance.
Programme
Notes from Gog Magog
Dir. Riar Rizaldi, Indonesia 2022, 20 min., Indonesian, Korean & English with English subtitles
Two workers from differing corners of a tech corporation experience visceral embodied horror as they lose themselves in the product/company.
Dir. Riar Rizaldi, Indonesia 2022, 20 min., Indonesian, Korean & English with English subtitles
Two workers from differing corners of a tech corporation experience visceral embodied horror as they lose themselves in the product/company.
Coders
Dir. Anastasia Sosunova, Lithuania 2022, 16 min., Lithuanian, English & Russian with English subtitles
As an esoteric, Soviet-era self-improvement practice, coding involves following instructions from a mysterious advisor – mind like a computer, programmable.
Platform Ghosts – Turker, Farmer, Bot
Dir. Aarti Sunder, India 2022, 13 min., Tamil, Kannada & Hindi with English subtitles
Natural lifecycles, the labour of scavengers pouring over carrion, perform counterpoint to outsourced ghost tales from a Mechanical Turk platform.
Onset
Dir. Anna Engelhardt & Mark Cinkevich, UK / Poland 2023, 25 min.
Demonic forces possess human and land bodies alike. Ukraine, Syria and Belarus are infected by Russian imperialism, resources extracted parasitically.
Dir. Anastasia Sosunova, Lithuania 2022, 16 min., Lithuanian, English & Russian with English subtitles
As an esoteric, Soviet-era self-improvement practice, coding involves following instructions from a mysterious advisor – mind like a computer, programmable.
Platform Ghosts – Turker, Farmer, Bot
Dir. Aarti Sunder, India 2022, 13 min., Tamil, Kannada & Hindi with English subtitles
Natural lifecycles, the labour of scavengers pouring over carrion, perform counterpoint to outsourced ghost tales from a Mechanical Turk platform.
Onset
Dir. Anna Engelhardt & Mark Cinkevich, UK / Poland 2023, 25 min.
Demonic forces possess human and land bodies alike. Ukraine, Syria and Belarus are infected by Russian imperialism, resources extracted parasitically.
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