Political animals

Ferran Vergara

Chile

"Political Animals" is a cinematic exploration that navigates between images of the past and present, merging Karl Marx's "Fragment on Machines" with the contemporary reality of an artificial intelligence.

  • Date
    23 March, 2024

    György Kepes. Interthinking Art + Science


    Márton Orosz, Hungary/Canada

    The history of media art, unfolding in the mid-20th century, is brought to life on the cinema screen through the animated life of the painter, photographer, designer, writer, and polymath György Kepes, a shapeshifter of modernism and the man who coined the phrase "visual culture.”

  • Date
    26 April, 2024

    Intertwined


    Alejandra García Morales - Colombia

    Between the lines of affection and pain, a generational dispute about what it means to be a woman is traced. A daughter faces the challenge of listening to her mother and grandmother in order to blur the forms that cement her identity.

  • Date
    26 April, 2024

    Luthier


    Carlos Gonzáles Penagos - Colombia

    A lone luthier manages to create a magical connection between nature and the musical instruments he builds.

  • Date
    26 April, 2024

    Tetrahedron (fire element)


    Yamid Botina - Colombia

    When the Galeras Volcano erupts, a dancer wrapped in an aura of fire dances on the edge of the crater, finding in his movements, guided by the powerful voice of the explosion, the truths of life beyond body and matter.

  • Date
    26 April, 2024

    The party's over


    Jean-Michel Rolland - France

    “The Party’s Over” features a video from a night of dancing. The absence of any artistic will in the development of this film makes it a perfect base material for an aesthetic détournement.

  • Date
    26 April, 2024

    Habitographies(three)


    Mónica Bravo (Professor Pontificia Universidad Javeriana - Cali) / Miguel Bohorquez (Professor Universidad del Valle) - Colombia

    Habitographies(three) is the second in a series of four short experimental cartoon films. It explores a city through the daily behavior of its citizens.

  • Date
    26 April, 2024

    Pilgrimage


    José Alejandro López Pérez - Profesor Universidad Nacional de Colombia - sede de la Paz - Colombia

    It is a poetic video, a mosaic of frames, made up of nine spaces, similar and open. In each frame there are images of two women (the two protagonists) moving through a room. The images, though not exact, have similarities to each other.

  • Date
    26 April, 2024

    "Gaia: Uni(co)verse"


    Silvia De Gennaro - Italy

    Why look for artificial worlds when we already live in a world full of wonders?

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