Keep an Eye Filmacademie Festival 2016
Film Programme 2
Home – Eliane Esther Bots
Film Programme 2A
Actors Sapa and Hija re-enact and re-tell short anecdotes of their lives. Coming from another country, there is a quest for belonging and the (im)possibility to completely feel at home. Read more about Eliane
Tsen-nana - Eliane Esther Bots
Film Programme 2B
An exploration of the invisible cloud of narrations present in the home of the Adajew family, who fled, over ten years ago, from Chechnya to Warsaw, Poland. How are the war, the longing for the father and the homeland still present in this warm home? Read more about Eliane
A Journey Into Zero Space – Dawood Hilmandi
Film Programme 2A
In his short experimental film, A Journey Into Zero Space Dawood explores the potential power of cinema by assembling documentary and archival, often personal footage into a journey into his head. To facilitate that journey and guide the viewer through different times and spaces in the film, he often uses short (authorial) commentary in the form of a voice-over. He re-archived his memories by treating the material as found footage that he then re-interprets by questioning a central theme: authority. Read more about Dawood
Dear Bob Dear Baba – Dawood Hilmandi
Film Programme 2B
Dear Bob Dear Baba reflects on the idea of authority by paralleling two figures of noticeable dominance, Dawood’s father and the well-known theatre maker Robert Wilson. Dear Bob Dear Baba is based on the latest encounters between Dawood and his father in Afghanistan and Iran, and on his collaboration with Robert Wilson during the Watermill Centre Summer Program in New York in 2014. Similarities and oppositions are visually reflected in the opposition of the two men and their different yet similar ways of dealing with power and spirituality. Based on how he experiences them, Dawood tries to redefine his connection to them.
thanks to Bob Robert Wilson and the Watermill International Summer Program 2014
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May 9th – Mariia Ponomarova
The film explores the contradiction between the perception of the rituals of Mariia’s family during Victory Day – the celebration of the end of WW2 - and her personal perception of May 9th, her birthday. Being both the main character and the maker in May 9th, it gave her an opportunity to experience and also to reflect on her emotional connection to the subject of the film. Read more about Mariia
Syndromes of Mimicry - Anastasija Piroženko
While the state of Lithuania is busy preparing to celebrate a new historical event, the working class is drowned in routine and mundane boredom. Enthusiasm has vanished a long time ago, now only a feeling of apathy remains. Syndromes of Mimicry examines the concept of imitative behaviour in a post-Soviet nations day-to-day life. What is needed to gain the recognition and appreciation of the West? Will a pompous light show bring happiness and prosperity to the peoples lives? Read more about Anastasija