VIS-À-VIS

Program

U ljudima koji nas okružuju, u mjestu gdje živimo, ogledavamo dijelove sebe, utkani u prostor i vrijeme u kojem se nalazimo. Ta je okolina nekad nepomična, a nekad varljiva i nestalna. Ponekad i bizarno besmislena. Mogu li se okrhnuti i rascjepkani dijelovi bića spojiti u iole smisleno i cjelovito postojanje?

Film 8 (igrani, Francuska, r. Anaïs-Tohé Commaret) u dokumentarnom se stilu poigrava s realnim i nadrealnim prizorima, gdje se jedno neprestano prelijeva u drugo, a gledatelj tone s likovima u paralelnu logiku i stvarnost. Umjesto spektakularne distopijske apokalipse, autorica prikazuje tihi raspad kapitalističkog svijeta: izolirane pojedince zarobljene u beskrajnoj dosadi i depresiji. U dokumentarcu Grand Prize (Hrvatska, r. Anja Koprivšek) talentirana plesačica Valentina, pionirka vougea domaćoj sceni, i mladi trans muškarac Teo prostor svoje slobode i postojanja pronalaze i grade na zagrebačkoj ballroom sceni i zajedničkom odnosu. U animiranom filmu Wish You Were Ear (Mađarska, r. Mirjana Balogh) vrlo slikovito dijelimo svoj život s drugima.

In the people who surround us and the place where we live, we see reflections of ourselves – woven into the space and time we inhabit. That environment is sometimes motionless, and at other times deceptive and unstable. Occasionally, it is even bizarrely meaningless. Can the chipped and fragmented parts of our being be assembled into something remotely coherent and whole?

The film 8 (fiction, France, dir. Anaïs-Tohé Commaret) plays with real and surreal imagery in a documentary style, where one constantly flows into the other, and the viewer sinks with the characters into a parallel logic and reality. Instead of a spectacular dystopian apocalypse, the director presents the quiet collapse of the capitalist world: isolated individuals trapped in endless boredom and depression. In Grand Prize (Croatia, dir. Anja Koprivšek), talented dancer Valentina – a pioneer of voguing on the local scene – and young trans man Teo find and build their space of freedom and existence on the Zagreb ballroom scene and in their shared relationship. In the animated film Wish You Were Ear (Hungary, dir. Mirjana Balogh), we vividly share our lives with others.