Ngày Khác (Another Day)
On another day, in a neighborhood at risk of collapse, a child quietly observed the world of faceless adults.
… >>>- Duration: 13 Min.
- Director: Thanh-Giang Nguyen
In the mirror of human experiences, inner worlds, and social dynamics. Through it, we recognize everyday moments, digital phenomena, mental states, and interpersonal relationships. We explore the subtle, often invisible channels of communication that shape our perception, our behavior, and our identity. A multi-layered look at the subtle and symbolically coded messengers that connect our inner world with social reality – a reflection on the control mechanisms of our lives.
On another day, in a neighborhood at risk of collapse, a child quietly observed the world of faceless adults.
… >>>A visual story about the desperate search for relieving peace. Through fighting crows - as a metaphor for masochistic self-destruction, blindness to the Will of Fate - to conquering and accepting alienating changes — both physical and spiritual - that sometimes lead to great healing, rebirth, metamorphosis from chrysalis to Imago.
… >>>How do we feel about the place where we grew up as it undergoes radical urbanization?… >>>
The film begins on the desktop. A text is read via Google Translate and opens a digital labyrinth. Project folders lead to subfolders, images overlap, scenes appear and disappear again. Order is sought, but the system that is supposed to provide stability begins to topple. Between self-dramatisation, archive work and loss of control, a film essay emerges that is directed against imposed order and inner overload, thus questioning the system in which it was produced.
… >>>Between memory and the digital realm, we create ghosts: of people around us and of ourselves, in long-forgotten game worlds that now lie dormant on hard drives. These ghosts haunt worlds that are slowly decaying and fading away. Human connections crumble if they are not nurtured—just like our memories and our data. The internet has claimed that it never forgets, but that's not true: it forgets very quickly. Our digital world is transient, even if we hardly want to admit it.
… >>>CN: Depression In a mosaic of games, films, and media, the protagonist's perspective, a fragmented state of mind, merges, blurring the boundaries between reality and dreams. 1g of quetiapine, both remedy and oblivion, dampens the heart and shatters identity. The film collage reflects on the medicalization of mental suffering and the loneliness that lies in synthetic calm. Through chaotic layers of media, it shows how the self is not healed, but rather rendered illegible and suspended in a borderland between sedation and despair.
… >>>It depicts the transformation of Kim, an ordinary individual with the most common surname in Korea, into a dish scrubber – a process of being “dish scrubber-ized”.
… >>>RAUM OHNE ZEIT begleitet die Künstlerin Sarah Schrof in ihrem Atelier. Fragmentarische Klangbilder bewegen sich mit ihr durch den Raum. Beobachtend und tastend folgen sie ephemeren Materialien und Prozessen. Pflanzen werden zu Pigment, Farben nehmen Form an. Messbare Zeit wird zu subjektivem Empfinden.… >>>
In her essayistic documentary film, Katrin Esser stages the story of her mother, who suffers from Alzheimer's disease. The course of the illness is told from two perspectives: that of the Polish caregiver Violetta and that of the daughter. They take turns recounting their experiences, the limits of care, excessive demands, working conditions, exploitation within the system, and death. The only location is the apartment, which shifts between living space, museum, and crime scene. Esser's staging reveals layers of memory and shows that remembering and forgetting are very individual.
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