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LES NOUVEAUX ALCHIMISTES - 2

LES NOUVEAUX ALCHIMISTES - 2

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October 11, 2024 | 17 H

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Wind | Mike Hoolboom
2023 - Short Film - 9 minutes - Canada - Experimental
This collage of wind-struck images was assembled using AI footage. This is not about computer art, but about the computer as an artist.

Rituels sous un ciel écarlate | Dominique Chila and Samer Najari
2024 - Short Film - 15 minutes - Canada - Fiction
Distant explosions echo, nothing alarming. Time stands still, allowing the three figures to find refuge in their luminous dreams. The sun will soon set, carrying them away. Rituals Under a Scarlet Sky tells the tale of daily life where hope survives despite the tragedy that attempts to engulf it.

Dull Spots of Greenish Colours | Sasha Svirsky
2024 - Short Film - 11 minutes - Germany - Experimental
The war for our attention has suddenly become a real war. Information technologies appear not just as mere means for somebody’s ends but as entities with their own agency, acting as one of the forces that make a horrific event possible, an event that is difficult to accept and difficult to comprehend.

Transit | Sebastian Freudenschuss
2024 - Short Film - 5 minutes - Austria - Animation
Is it even possible to engage in self-initiated, non-commercial work in an office, which is itself a manifestation of commerce? Or does the commercial space inherently preclude any non-commercial activities? Do those who work in a commercial space inevitably become part of the commercial system?

Dreams About Putin | Nastia Korkia, Vlad Fishez and Vlad Fishez
2023 - Short Film - 31 minutes - Belgium - Experimental
After the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022 many people started to dream about Putin. And they shared these dreams in the media. Over 1,000 dreams about Putin are documented.