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Berwick New Cinema: Balearic Abyssal

22 September 2017

Run Time

82 mins

The very best in artists’ moving image and new filmmaking

Berwick New Cinema includes feature films, competition screenings and seminars.

The second edition of the award features resolutely contemporary films that transgress restraints of genre, capital and expectation. Chosen by an international jury, the Berwick New Cinema Competition features some of the most exciting and ambitious filmmakers working today.

Death of the Sound Man

Awasarn Sound Man

Two sound recordists arrive at the realisation that, just like the Thai government who don’t listen to the voice of their citizens, cinema audiences don’t care too much about film sound, or the labours that got it there. A deftly political and absurdist film featuring a full cast of flags, various girths of sausage and some brilliant sound recordist choreography with a camel.

Director

Country

Year

2017

Premiere

Dialogue Language

Thai

Primary Contact

Sorayos Prapapan

Duration

16 mins

Producer

Sorayos Prapapan

Disaster Film

Filme-catástrofe

‘Angélica needs to change her lock.’ Offering shelter from the storm, this is a film for precarious times. Gustavo Vinagre Alves’ films succeed where many fail, allowing the full complexity of politics, art and artifice to synthesise and synergise through deceptively straightforward narrative and documentary forms. Flying in the face of tragedy and hypocrisy, Filme-catástrofe is erotically charged and full of love.

Director

Country

Year

2017

Premiere

Dialogue Language

Portuguese

Subtitle Language

Primary Contact

Gustavo Vinagre

Duration

19 mins

Delphi Falls

Testing the limits of identification with the camera’s point of view, Delphi Falls cycles through multiple subjectivities, misusing traditional narrative conventions – the suggestion of a story, the anchoring of actors as characters – and has the viewer constantly questioning who or what they are. Mary Helena Clark uses film languages to articulate a dispersed agency, to reimagine the line between sentient and inanimate, self and other.

Director

Country

Year

2016

Premiere

Dialogue Language

English

Primary Contact

Mary Helena Clark

Duration

19 mins

Producer

Mary Helena Clark

Dislocation Blues

An incomplete and imperfect portrait of reflections from Standing Rock. Cleo Keahna recounts his experiences entering, being at, and leaving the camp and the difficulties and the reluctance in looking back with a clear and critical eye. Terry Running Wild describes what his camp is like, and what he hopes it will become.

Director

Country

Year

2017

Premiere

Dialogue Language

English

Primary Contact

Sky Hopinka

Duration

17 mins

Distributor

Video Video Data Bank