Gardens are places to breathe deeply and seek refuge. Here we find inspiration, can speak freely, unfold, and relax. On balconies, in backyards, in city squares, and in forests, gardens are more than just greenery, more than the rustling of leaves and the buzzing of bees. We can define them as freely as we want – or not? In this program, gardens become places of longing, resistance, and digital abstraction. (Jessica Manstetten, Matti Ullrich)
“What kind of times are these, when to talk about trees is almost a crime. Because it implies the silence about so many horrors?“ Bertolt Brecht from “To Those Born After”, written 1934-1938, exiled in Denmark. EMDR was discovered by chance while walking in the park.
… >>>After heavy nights partying with drugs and sex, Rezmorah goes to the Botanical Garden of Lisbon to get sober again. More than a park, the place is a living museum, and amidst its tropical and exotic flora, Rez talks about their relationship with the night, with that space, and with gender, wondering what plants may have to teach us about ways of seeing and thinking queer.
… >>>This film is about public space. This film is about the destruction of culture. This film is about fountains that have had enough. In this film, the fountains come to life, they become living beings, each one has its own character and tells a different story. They speak out so that people notice them, perceive them, take care of them. Their rebellion culminates in a protest. What would happen if fountains could talk?
… >>>In 2015, in Damascus, the Basateen al-Razi district and its orchards were razed to the ground as punishment for the population's uprising against the regime. Having lost everything, two former residents recall their neighborhood, where their homes and the oldest orchards in Damascus once stood.
… >>>CN: Flashing Lights A garden of signals, noise, and colors – electric rather than earthly. Between interference noise and synaptic ecstasy, a spectacle of audiovisual sensory stimuli unfolds. Micro-organic flickering meets synthetic chirping, light meets textures of skin, scales, cell structures. A surreal nature between analog and digital abstraction: fleeting, enchanted, seductive. (Matti Ullrich)
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