Opening 12.5.2021
Pandemic Films related to artistic productions in times of pandemic. In addition, there will be activities related to the topics discussed in which the public will be able to participate free of charge.
My name is Sami
Director: Daniela Lucato
Country: Italy
During the COVID-19 pandemic Sami apparently calls a friend to tell her a tragic episode.
Quarantine
Director: Erica Schreiner
Country: United States
Filmed on a VHS camera inside my apartment during the COVID-19 quarantine. There is no fruit inside the rinds or eggs inside the shells, and the flowers are dead. Counting the days, each day hardly differs from the next. In solitude, a woman remembers her body is a calendar. We find that which comes from within. provides the greatest sustenance.
Do you reread the emails before you send them?
Director: Karen Byk
Country: Germany
Is there proximity in confinement?
In times when we are asked to keep our distance from other bodies, emails can become a tool of intimacy to get through the challenges of adulthood.
Interlude
Director: Salamida Virginia
Country: Argentina
In the context of Social, Preventive and Compulsory Isolation, a woman comes into conflict with everyday life. In his new small world, his hopes are found abroad, redefining the prose of García Lorca.
Lions Club
Director: Lucia Alegre
Producer: Manuela Iseas
Country: Argentina
For a moment, we all believed that we’d come out of the pandemic as better persons. Yet, we’re still caged animals: unhinged, filled with hunger and, at the same time, completely sedated, lying under the only available ray of sunlight entering the zoo.
This short film comes up as a way to set in order daily thoughts amid so much confinement, and to reach one conclusion: it’s impossible to produce a coherent train of thought.
As we move through the city with our faces half-covered, avoiding to go back home because there’s nothing new left to be experienced there, a thousand reflections and ideas, both great and mundane, crowd in on us, intertwine and get lost in a never-ending stream, in the middle of a not so cold wintry afternoon.
4.48//2020
Director: Maria Fernanda Jardi Espinosa
Country: Germany – México
This short film is based on Sarah Kane’s posthumous work, Psychosis 4.48, in which the author expresses her experience in psychiatric hospitals and clinical depression in a very personal way. Sarah Kane committed suicide after writing this text. In 4.48 // 2020 the isolation and fear caused by the Covid-19 pandemic and the mandatory confinement, are the triggers of episodes of depression, anxiety and suicidal thoughts of the protagonist. Loneliness as the main theme in contrast to the apparent multi connectivity that current technology allows us.