Films

• The Hermits / Pustelnicy26'

  POL 2011, 26’

  Above a not unbusy road two huts cling to the slope, not a stone’s throw apart. On the left Grzegorz serves God, complaining that his body is his worst enemy and about the proximity to the world. On the right the nasty old ragamuffin Marian threatens to chase the camera away. The neighbours reject each other, and yet each behaves like a mirror image of the other. Is there love? Life after death? Neither of them rejects the big questions. Naive village scenes painted by the elder of the two are full of police, rabble and the Pope.

   

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  Authors:

  • Kacper Czubak
• Bielutine - In the Garden of Time / Bielutin w ogrodach czasu36'

  RUS 2011, 36’

  In semi-darkness Ely and Nina keep watch over a precious collection. Innumerable works of art, the cr`eme de la cr`eme of past centuries, adorn the walls of their Moscow apartment. Grandfather bought them, the family has preserved the collection throughout the decades and added to it, whilst renaming during the Revolution or the transcription into Russian changed the family name from Bellucci to Bielutin. Ely was once a painter and was ostracised for formalism. Nina was an art historian who says she has written a hundred books. Vodka flows freely, toy figures appear haunted, poltergeists approach, Nina’s Master Raven speaks and for Ely everything is a comedy. Art can be neither owned nor copied.

   

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  Authors:

  • Clément Cogitore
• Kirkcaldy Man / Człowiek z Kirkcaldy18'

  GBR 2011, 18’

  Twenty years ago every child on the east coast of Scotland knew who Jocky Wilson was. The best darts player of all time. The world champion. A national and folk hero. But since 1995 he has been paying the price for his self-destruction. Illness, isolation, depression. The rise and fall of this working class hero, not unlike those seen in pop music, is reflected in parallel to the decline of the region and of his home, the coal-mining town of Kirkaldy.

   

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  Authors:

  • Julian Schwanitz
• Lux Aeterna30'

  POL, NOR 2011, 30’

  Indiscriminate texts and non-texts as an aggressive We in search of ourselves, whilst we conquer, overthrow and vanquish the world, whilst we reshape the earth as a moon landscape. Are gravel pits madness? Quarries, towers, tunnels? Thought, planning, action? Civilisation, revolution, making a better world? Striving for power or for harmony? Or the unquenchable fear of it? Give us, O Lord, eternal peace, and eternal light.

   

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