SAT SEPT 6 - SUN SEPT 7
2025
Sunday Sept 7
14:00 - 15:30 | Useless Machines, Beautiful Failures | 1h plus Director Q&A
International short films
From chimeric dreamscapes to stop-motion phantasmagoria, this programme's animations meander through the surreal and fragmented terrain of contemporary life. The magic of transformation and the evolving human condition are explored through digital and analogue tools, producing vibrant rhythms, techno-dystopian futures, and kaleidoscopic meditations.
Hugs & Kisses
Marc Richter | 11min | Germany
Richter's video works are highly influenced by the writings of feminist writer Angela Carter (specifically "The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman") hallucinating a world of human snails and snail-like humans, human mushrooms and mushrooms with human skin, hermaphrodites and men without genitals…..chimeric protagonists performing useless, pointless, sisyphean tasks.
Magic with small apparatus
Paul Tarragó | 8min | United Kingdom
Super 8 stop motion, south London style. Includes feats with cards and ropes, legerdemain, sleights of camera, a perky river, and rare insights into the activities of a local magician-ventriloquist from the 1930s.
Brixton Bustle
Shaun Clark | 5min | United Kingdom
A journey through the energy, rhythm and culture of life in Brixton, a district of South London with an African-Caribbean soul.
Tomorrow Doesn't Exist
Chico Peres Smith | 35min | Canada, Portugal
An experimental exploration of modern life’s emptiness, examining how the spectacle, the death of community, and the rise of individualism have reshaped our world.
Mechanical Ripples
Runfeng Qiu | 4min | China
Infinite marks by clockwork frogs.
Deluge
Meejin Hong | 12min | United States
“Deluge” is an ever-evolving landscape where the present inevitably coexists with the past. Memories are formed, reshaped, and obliterated, relentlessly competing for space. Control is surrendered, and mistakes and second chances are embraced. It is the slow stampede of a vulnerable mind.
Overcome
Guli Silberstein | 7min | United Kingdom
Overcome is a sensory odyssey that challenges perception, celebrates transformation, and contemplates a future where technology expands—and tests—the limits of humanity. It is a vision of a world where utopia and dystopia collide, and where rebirth may only come through embracing the unknown
