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Lumen by Sarah Seené
1' 41'' / super8 / 2019 / CANADA / exp-doc

Lumen (meaning \'\'light\'\' in Latin) is a short experimental
documentary shot on Super-8 that portrays a young girl with oculocutaneous albinism.
Despite the hypersensitivity caused by this genetic disease, the depigmentation of her skin and eyes gives her an extraordinary aura.
Sarah Seené is a photographer and filmmaker who works with analog media (35mm, 120mm, Polaroid, Super8). Bringing together mainly portraits, her images focus on faces, bodies and the human being. The photographic material offered by the film has allowed her to develop a singular poetry, a dream that animates each of her series. Her work is inspired by the concept of resilience and the capacity to be reborn from ashes.
Her photographs have been exhibited internationaly in solo and group shows. Her short films have been screened at various festivals in Europe and North America. She creates music videos and analog portraits of musicians in France and Quebec.
News From Nowhere by Ben Balcom
8'' / 16mm / 2020 / USA / exp

Two slow pans across a public park in Milwaukee. Words from Bernadette Mayer imagining the possibility of a perfect summer day
Ben Balcom (b. 1986, Massachusetts) is a filmmaker currently living and working in Milwaukee, WI. He is an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee and is the co-founder and co-programmer of Microlights Cinema.



noonwraith blues by Kamila Kuc
3' 11'' / 35mm / super8 / 2020 / UK – USA / exp

Ominous cinegrams of Albrecht Dürer’s Melencolia print intercut, like cascading scythes, with depictions of a woman in a field, evoking repetitions that exist in harvest rituals, as well as in gestures of madness. Specters of familial anxieties creep into this loose take on the myth of Poludnica (noonwraith or Lady Midday), a Slavic harvest spirit that could cause madness in those who wandered the fields alone.
Kamila Kuc is a multimedia artist and writer whose work explores the transformative potential of apparatuses, dreams and memories in the creation of societal myths and narratives. Her films have screened internationally: most recently at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, CROSSROADS, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Anthology Film Archives New York; Studio Gallery, Warsaw; Whitechapel Gallery, British Film Institute, Institute of Contemporary Arts and Visions in the Nunnery, London.
To All Those by Josh Weissbach
6' 48'' / super8 / 2019 / USA / exp - doc
A city symphony in miniature, dedicated to anyone who has gotten lost in thought while stuck on the midwinter train.
To all that unfolds in those private reveries.
Josh Weissbach is an experimental filmmaker that lives in a house with his wife, two daughters, three cats, and six chickens next to a once abandoned village where a cult now resides. His films and videos have been shown worldwide in such venues as Ann Arbor Film Festival, Slamdance Film Festival, Mono No Aware. Chicago Underground Film Festival, 25 FPS Festival, and Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival. He has won jury prizes at Videoex, ICDOCS, $100 Film Festival, Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, Berlin Revolution Film Festival, and Haverhill Experimental Film Festival. 
Backyard on Saint Rose by Paul Turano
25' / 16mm / 2019 / USA / exp-doc

An autobiographical portrait of a backyard from Spring to Fall 2009. This footage was revisited after a 10-year hiatus, and reveals a deeper personal story about our attempts to start a family.
Paul Turano is a visual artist whose work in film, video, sound and new media incorporates lyrical observational strategies and meditations on personal space, as well as subjective reportage of marginal media events and long form essay films.
Andrò a ritroso della nostra corsa by Mattia Biondi
- I will go backwards of our path -
2' 50'' / found footage / 2019 / Italy / exp

"Andrò a ritroso della nostra corsa" is a backwards journey through the seasons and the units of the language. To change the prose of the world, its intact clock. There is always a place more thoroughly, lost images in minimum intervals.
Mattia Biondi is an italian independent filmmaker who works at the end of the images. His research is based on the use of minimal and essential technical instruments and it is oriented at the development of creative processes concerning the fusion of archival material and autobiographical elements.