Friday at the Festival

The fourth festival day brings a round table discussion on the topics of ecology and self-sustainability of film labs, the final two competition blocks: 'Nightmares and Dreamscapes' & 'Periphery of a Common', and a performance by Total Refusal that takes place within the spaces of a video game.
 

At 2 p.m., there will be a round table discussion at a new festival location – the studio-gallery KLET (Ilica 73 passageway). The discussion will focus on different self-sustainability strategies in communal activities of film labs, while the speakers include the director and founder of the Rotterdam film lab Filmwerkplaats – Esther Urlus, researcher and curator Charlie Hewison, curator and researcher Kim Knowles, and the directing and researching duo, Alexandra Moralesová & Georgy Bagdasarov. The round table will be moderated by the Symposium curator, Ejla Kovačević.

The fifth competition block, Nightmares and Dreamscapes, is screening at 6 p.m. It features four visually challenging, authentic, and phantasmagoric films that explore different spaces of modernity, the everyday, and memory. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the present artists: Inès Sieulle, the director of the uncanny The Oasis I Deserve, and Ulu Braun, the director of the hybrid chaos Pacific Vein.

The final competition block, Periphery of a Common, will screen at 8.30 p.m. As the title itself says, you are watching visions that appear and disappear time and again on the periphery of the visible, only to come back as remnants of the past. The subsequent Q&A will feature a well-known name, the festival laureate and co-director of Revolving Rounds Johann Lurf, as well as Ana Hušman, the director of the award-winning I Would Rather Be a Stone.

Finally, at 10 p.m., we are in for a unique lecture performance by the pseudo-marxist collective Total Refusal – Everyday Daylight. It features three performers/players/guides, who will take us through the virtual landscapes of the game GTA V. They will take us on an art walk, showcasing notable works by various artists present in the game and projected on the screen.

Friday and Saturday morning are reserved for the Site-specific Plant Developers workshop. The workshop will be led by the aforementioned duo Moralesová and Bagdasarov, better known as Labodoble. Inspired by the ecology and eco-logic of film processing, they will reveal the principles behind photochemical processes and the perspective of sustainable development.