COMPETITION PROGRAMME 3 - Out of Sync
ARTIS LARGE HALL
Thursday, 21 August 2025
6:00 PM – 7:25 PM
85 minutes
Welcome to the world of experimentation. The beauty of being out of sync— where images and sounds move differently, yet flow together through emotion. Nothing’s better than letting yourself go into beautiful chaos.
Tickets available HERE!
Films will be screened in the original language with English subtitles.
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MORE ABOUT THE FILMS:
Contradiction of Emptiness
Director: Irina Rubina
Year: 2024
Length: 3 min 25 sec
Country: Germany
Production: iraru.films
The language in which lullabies were sung to me kills. And I am with it. And the lullabies fall silent.
An inner monologue between two languages and identities. Between the black and white of the pinscreen ‘L’Alpine’.
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De Imperio
Director: Alessandro Novelli
Year: 2023
Length: 13 min 15 sec
Country: Portugal, Spain
Production: BAP Animation Studios, Studio Kimchi
During a peaceful night, a group of fugitives tries to find its way to the center of the building, where the entire resistance is gathering. Evading the surveillance, they go through the rooms of the Giants and witness their macabre routines.
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Disturbia
Director: Mira Yankova
Year: 2024
Length: 6 min 23 sec
Country: Bulgaria
Production: Frame Productions
Before our very eyes a strange human-bird hybrid undergoes constant transformation to cope with the omnipresent tensions of economical, ideological, military, and climatic threats.
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Drag
Director: Robertas Nevecka
Year: 2025
Length: 4 min 44 sec
Country: Lithuania
Production: Filmset Chronicles
A music video made for the punk-orchestra Lapkričio dvidešimtosios orkestras, based in the underground of Vilnius, Lithuania, embraces chaos as its aesthetic. It transforms glitches, fragmented scans, and digital noise into a raw, unpredictable visual experience. Using Blender and a simple scanning app, the video distorts reality, rejecting polished CGI in favor of a pixelated, unfiltered world. The band’s fusion of distorted sound and glitchy imagery mirrors their experimental approach to music. In this “Glitchpunk Odyssey,” imperfection becomes an art form, proving that rebellion thrives in digital disorder.
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Dull Spots of Greenish Colours
Director: Sasha Svirsky
Year: 2024
Length: 10 min 32 sec
Country: Germany
Production: Wait a Second!
War for our attention has suddenly become an actual war. Information technologies appear not just as mere means for somebody’s ends but as something having their agency, as one of the acting forces rendering possible a horrific event, which is very hard to accept and almost impossible to comprehend. We have no control over it and are doomed to scroll through the newsfeed.
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Director: Zirui Chen
Year: 2024
Length: 11 min 44 sec
Country: Germany
Production: Kunsthochschule Kassel
The film cuts through the administrative paperwork required for the director to live in different countries and explores the ambiguity and fragility of identity in the bureaucratic system, in the cultural context and in today's social industry. Bureaucracies construct individual systemic identities in a series of mechanisms intended to sustain the functioning of society. Underneath the bureaucracy there is a deeper psychological need to commit to ‘sacred’ beliefs or to abandon silly ‘superstitions’. People are shaped by what they create or by what they destroy. In the artificial intelligence industry, which alleges to represent the future, the human subject is the first to disappear, and what comes sooner than the promise of the future is more efficient globalised exploitation.
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Last Year in Wisborg
Director: Stuart Pound
Year: 2023
Length: 4 min 20 sec
Country: United Kingdom
Production: Stuart Pound
All our heads have a moving collage in them of impressions and appropriations. In “last year in Wisborg”, clips from F.W.Murnau's 1922 film “Nosferatu” mix with colour film of a blue sky, a painting by the filmmaker and his own hand. The undead remember before and after their death. This double nostalgia of the Count's existence is felt in the meditative soundtrack.
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Mother of Dawn
Director: Clara Trevisan
Year: 2024
Length: 8 min 9 sec
Country: Brazil, Belgium, Finland, Portugal
Production: ReAnima Joint Masters Programme
In the void of night, a hungry creature looks for food and perpetuates an everyday cycle.
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Psychonauts
Director: Niko Radas
Year: 2025
Length: 8 min
Country: Croatia
Production: Croatian Association of Digital Artists
Leaving their human hosts, mental disorders take on anthropomorphic forms and find new refuges.
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Tunnel Wandering
Director: Li Zehao
Year: 2023
Length: 10 min 40 sec
Country: Japan
Production: Tokyo University of Art
I search for answers in the tunnel. I reach out to feel the wind but all I can touch is my shadow.