XXII International Image Festival, XENOlandscapes, Colombia
Titled XENOlandscapes, the XXII edition of the International Image Festival focused on what Bruno Latour called the Сry of the Earth — the power of action of people and communities that allowed them to alter and transform their small environments, thus achieving a movement of regeneration of ecosystems that enable their survival. The works in the program offered a vision of design as a tool for change and reflection, that contributed to the reformulation of consumption practices, and reimagined environment as a place of creation and democratic distribution of knowledge.
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Museo de Artes Visuales (MAV), Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano
Artists
Dolls, 2019 (6:54 min)
Lydia Rikker
Russia
“Who do children’s dolls smile at innocently? What do their older versions, the mannequins in shop windows, keep silent about? Using found footage of a study of Freud’s “The Uncanny” (Unheimlichkeit), the director peers into the depths of childhood fears. For almost 7 minutes, along with the director we try to understand what it means to be a toy, what it means to be an owner, and how people differ from their plastic doubles”.
The experimental film ‘Dolls’ became the ‘Best International Student Experimental Short Film’ in the Festival Universitario de Cine y Audiovisuales Equinoxio Bogotá (Colombia), also it was screened in the following festivals: Biofiction (Vienna, Austria), FIVA Festival Internacional de Videoarte (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Bethlehem Student Film Festival (Palestine). The film was made while studying in the experimental film laboratory (curated by Mikhail Zheleznikov, Saint Petersburg School of New Cinema).
Director and media artist. Born in 1982. Graduate of the experimental film laboratory of the St Petersburg School of New Cinema (Russia). Participant and winner of various festivals.
Where is my plastic bag, 2018-2020 (5 min)
Lilia Li-Mi-Yan, Katherina Sadovsky
Armenia
What ideas come to your mind when you hear the word “future”? Do you imagine your very own and private future or fantasize about something global, where all humanity will participate?
The film features slow industrial images from different departments of a plastic processing plant, shown on three screens. Suddenly, among the powerful machines, a fragile human body appears with strange plastic objects that look like cells, like new organs formed outside, not inside. Some cyborgs with implants that move and breathe with them.
Macro shooting of factory processes resembles natural phenomena, such as volcanic eruptions, geyser explosions, the rapid flow of a mountain river, and at the top of all this is a human, possibly already a post-human. All this is very anthropocentric. Today, humans are the most important at the geophysical level, and global warming is our business. The burning of various types of energy in large quantities (oil, gas, the production of petroleum products, plastics). Can we stop them?
This is interesting. Seen from a social point of view, not scientific, many people relate to environmental issues separately from humanity. As if the consequences, in our case — from plastic, will negatively affect nature, the planet, but not us. We seem to separate ourselves from nature. It is unlikely that now producers and processors of petroleum products will quit their activities. But they will have to adapt to the present, the future, and modify their actions.