The brainchildren and complex relationships of our Jury members towards the film medium have been filtered into three presentations for our traditional late afternoon festival slot. The jury members' selections are more than just a prelude to the (expanded) film programmes in the evening hours. Rather, they give us a chance to observe parallels through history and the deafening chaos of forms and ideas we call experimental film. 

While visiting the Chinese ghost town of Yujiapu, Karl Lemieux, a prominent young Canadian celluloid enthusiast, and BJ Nilsen, a Swedish composer with an ear attuned to industrial soundscapes, scratched on the surface of monumental metal tracks and concrete blocks, empty shells that forgot their once planned use. 

An indifferent glow of sea waves as a stage for the human existential cycle. The waves that chew on the shore like a grinning carnivore denture, luring humanoid microbes in black to their insatiable stomachs. Spots of sunlight pierce through the shrubbery and tree tops of dishevelled nature and form dynamic patterns along the way. Space is a place of refuge and a place for drama/plot. 

Ever since it silently flickered in a noisy Parisian café in 1895, subsequently uniting the wet dreams of technological innovators, enthusiastic explorers of the possibilities of the new medium, marketing experts and audience enthralled with the coming attraction of 'reality brought to life', film, among other things, became a testament of the human need to connect, command and communicate with inanimate entities. 

Admission to all festival programs and screenings is free. The complete program will be online from Thursday 7th of September, as well as accreditations forms. 

We thought that our job was to capture reality but this tool we chose is like a ventriloquist’s dummy possessed by unknown spirits, it speaks without our control.