Short films are wonderfully weird creatures. Less limited by narrative convention, ambitious budgets and distribution circuits, they can truly run wild. Beyond any rulebook of filmmaking, they dap into the unconscious, into alienation, abject and dreamlike trips that bend the mind beyond what we are used to seeing. So much, they electrify us. Watching a short film is like developing a micro-obsession. Like catching a spark. It’s like having a brief encounter that lingers with you for days. Their fabric is woven from digital texture (Pacific Vein) and old relics (Simulated Scenery Study), they move through computer generated interspaces with ease (Their Eyes) and pulsate in our eyes and ears (ESP). Yet what lurks beneath the visual and auditive experience of these shorts is our distorted reality, uncanny and estranged, we recognize it.
Films in the program:
Simulated Scenery Study – Land of Smoke
Japan, 2024, 6 min, Keitaro Oshima, no dialogue
Yummy
Estonia, 2024, 9 min, Martinus Klement, no dialogue
Their Eyes
France, 2025, 23 min, Nicolas Gourault, English, Spanish
Pacific Vein
Germany, 2024, 12 min, Ulu Braun, no dialogue
ESP
2024, USA, 3 min, Laura Kraning, no dialogue
A Kind Of Testament
2023, France, 18 min, Stephen Vuillemin, English
English 
German