Columbarium
Tony Kenny
Ireland | 2006 | 25mins | Beta | Black & White | Subtitled
A film set in the head of a disembodied poet embarking on an elliptical perambulation of Dublin. Concerned with the nature of perceived duality, consciousness and conscience, it is a subjective examination of man's compulsive mind; a meditation on the nature of addiction, escapism, grief and acceptance: obsessively wrapped up as a long form visual love poem.
Forest
Forst
Ursula Hansbauer, Ascan Breuer, Wolfgang Konrad
Austria | 2005 | 50mins | Beta | Black & White | Subtitled
Forest is a portrayal. The documentary tells about a forest in the middle of Europe far from the urban world and from civilisation which is home to a peculiar community of the banished - it is a world for the stranded. A diffuse system that still has total control makes sure that this world doesn't show itself, that it doesn't pop up in our reality and become a disturbance. In Forest the banished proclaim their own truth and tell the story of their empowerment. They slowly recall their identity as political refugees and start to make plans for their escape...
