SHORT & SWEET invites you to a marathon featuring 19 works. Expect wit, staging, retrospectives, experimentation, rhyme and commentary – all crafted according to a time-honoured formula: brevity is the soul of wit. (Linn Löffler, Matti Ullrich)
The piece explores the loneliness and estrangement of a life mediated by screens: corrupted files, accumulated dust, and broken digital memories accompany a solitary, almost ghostly desire.… >>>
In December 1989, just a few hours after George Marinescu had read out the regime’s threats against the demonstrators on Romanian state television, he joined the revolutionaries as they occupied the television station.… >>>
Filters and algorithms act as ultimate censorship. What is removed leaves an emptiness – filled by imagination, assumptions, or arbitrary content.
… >>>From the right, a man in a suit drifts into view, carried on an ice floe, hammering furiously at the ice with a sledgehammer, snow flying with each blow. How long before the ice gives way and the man disappears into the waves?… >>>
The male gaze is diverted for a moment.
… >>>Two construction workers are arguing about braking distances, and a married couple are talking about disaster films, in which humanity only has a week to live. Anyway.… >>>
Intimate moment between a father and son – one night, one car ride, one problem.… >>>
Hans is turned away by a waitress based on false accusations. When the mistake comes to light, the waitress is ashamed. Now, the guests begin to take advantage of the situation...… >>>
CN: Suicide
Heiko shoots himself in various places around his apartment and then lies there dead.
Don’t pick it!… >>>
A childhood memory brought to life through a mixture of archival found photos, staged scenes, and stop-motion animation; a brief, bewildering journey inside two young girls’ shared dream of manhood.… >>>
The rhythmic sing-song of a nursery rhyme echoes through the room and an acoustic tribunal emerges, addressing the expulsion of Black people and colonial acts of violence.
… >>>In the distance, a woman's fingers are utilized as a musical instrument as a scene unfolds around her and the adjacent musician.… >>>
In an Art Nouveau pool, a young woman finesses her swimming skills.
… >>>This poetic, documentary-style, soft-experimental film uses striking examples to illustrate the ubiquity of chipboard in public spaces as a makeshift solution to a wide range of practical problems.… >>>
After the world premiere of his film “Being John Smith” an unexpected encounter in a hotel elevator leads the artist to question the nature of reality.… >>>
A journey through a rather unconventional furniture store begins, reawakening long-forgotten desires.… >>>
Is it art or can it be thrown away? A pair of twins talk about a dress they found belonging to a Polly Pocket doll. The twins plan to take the dress to a museum.
… >>>Inspired by the metaphysical paintings of Giorgio de Chirico, the film transforms an ordinary public space into a mysterious and dreamlike tableau.
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