Day 1: Surfaces, Railway Tracks and Things that Go 'Boom!'
Welcome to Student centre at 6pm and Croatian program Reflexes, festival opening and Competition program 1 at 8pm, and a double expanded cinema performances at 10pm. See you there!
Surfaces are a tricky business. Natural erosive elements carve the rocky Adriatic coast. Stiff silhouettes stand on pebbles and disappear in the voracious mouth of the sea (Partenza). Generations of hungover hedonists and time-wasting bathers roam around the beach and disappear in a reflection of sunrise (They Just Come and Go). Empty surfaces yearn for perspective, flooded by quirky fragments of self-help lessons (10). City pools glow in the dusk, concrete bathes in the sauce of ripened fruit, and time just doesn’t seem to stop (Meanwhile). Everything is great at home. Pay us a visit at 6pm at SC Cinema and see for yourselves.
It's all the same in the world, if not crazier. Such are Standards (8pm, also SC Cinema). Along the way, keep your eyes firmly closed for a better experience of the road texture and accompanying sensorial sensations (Trip). Tunisian streets squawk at us through a piece of white paper (Foyer). In Columbia, hands, mouth and ecstatic body movements produce a kinetic force as a means of communication with the other world (La Bouche). Austrian computers pile us a visual noise of action films and reduce it an impotent TV white noise (keep that dream burning). In the meantime, a Dutch woman is making a film with more multiple explosions, children blown up and money down the drain than all the currently running multiplex attractions together (Explosion Ma Baby).
When the dust settles, we will run to &TD theatre for a double course in trans-humanism, traumatoscopy and horrorism, courtesy of our dear guests "in focus", OJOBOCA (10pm). Mischievous loops kept in their projectors by the Berlin duo will present excerpts from dusty erotic magazines as artefacts beyond time and space, perceptively reconfigured and recontextualised, set in the self-proclaimed New Museum of Mankind. OJOBOCA's deadpan absurd style will easily bring smile to our faces, if not make us laugh our hearts out. But definitely it will laugh to our faces – literally, loudly and perversely (Now I Want to Laugh). Join us afterwards for a rink at the iconic &TD atrium, where the ground under our feet meets the theory of relativity and we defy surfaces will trembling knees.