Programme
Short Films
Six Films by Jan Bot
Will the video essay maker one day be replaced by a robot or piece of software?
1815
During the 1815 Highland Clearances, a stubborn tenant farmer and a Waterloo veteran strike up a reluctant and uneasy bond.
2nd Person
An old water pipe causes a ceiling leak. On this ceiling, toxic Polyporales mushrooms grow.
3 Dialogues About the Future
Three pairs of robots engage in dialogue. How does artificial intelligence see the world? How does it see itself?
45th Parallel
A monologue is performed in a building that inhabits the thickness of a borderline, reflecting on how free movement, free knowledge and free space are under threat.
A.I. Poetries of Female and Non-Female Beings in Gas Stations at Night
This is a film about the gaze that melts matter into pixels, about the frame that holds in it a type of perception trained for hours inside a smartphone screen.
A90
Annette works in a road-side cafe where she meets Morgan. They are immediately transfixed by one another.
Absolution, Parsin
The imagined perpetrator in a famously unsolved true crime case, “Who Put Bella Down the Wych Elm”, is confronted about his past by an unearthly Bison.
Abyss
A chain of 10,000 images found by an Artificial Intelligence, depicting humanity as seen through the eyes of an awakening consciousness.
Aeons Ark
A futuristic flood epic which depicts the destruction of a future world by a momentous flood.
All Her Beautiful Green Remains in Tears
Re-edited footage of Walt Disney's Nature's Half Acre (1951) tells a story of female desire, trauma, masochism, and emotional fantasy.
All my Scars Vanish in the Wind
Among intrusive and sought-after memories, a woman hears a disconcerting call from the depths of her being: a cryptic cry for help.