International Festival Signs of the Night - Bangkok |
lnternational Festival Signes de Nuit - Bangkok |
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10th International Festival Signes de Nuit - Bangkok - July 13-21, 2024
22th International Festival Signs of the Night - Thailand
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Bangkok - The Spirit of Opening
The Festival Signs of the Night - The Spirit of Independence
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Sunday, July 21, 2024
Thai Archive / 17 h
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Ian Gibbins |
Australia / 2023 / 0:11:39 |
"We have been ordered to leave. They told us our lease has expired. Their cast-offs litter our landscapes. We have our ways of keeping out of sight. These are our microrefugia..." As human-induced global climate change threatens the viability of nearly every ecosystem on earth, small refuges, the microrefugia, may provide safe havens for the organisms that can successfully survive there. Small plants, fungi and species yet to evolve may yet be long-term survivors, if only we give them a chance... Nearly all of this footage was recorded in the Belair area of unceded Kaurna Land in South Australia. Much of it was filmed among the native plants in our own garden, with key elements recorded in Belair National Park. The music is in 11/4 time and includes samples of birds, frogs, machines, engines and alarms in and around the environments where the videos were recorded.
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Forêts |
Simon Plouffe |
Canada / 2022 / 0:16:22 |
Eastern white pines submerged under the waters of a hydroelectric reservoir on unceded Innu territory transform into flames. This exploration between water and fire illustrates our current climate emergency through multiple stories about the relationship between a community and it's land. In a dark, ambiguous environment, minuscule particles drift slowly before the lens. The image focuses to reveal spruce trees and tall pines, while Innu voices tell us the story of this territory, this flooded forest. Muffled percussive sounds gradually become louder, suggesting the presence of a hydroelectric dam. The submerged trees gradually transform into firebrands as whispers bring back the stories of this forest.
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In the Noise of the Downpour
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Oleksandr Stupak |
Ukraine / 2024 / 0:11:47 |
The film is a contemplation of life through the prism of war. It is a premonition of global world changes... and a hope for the prudence of humanity. Human beings live in a world of memories, fears and passions, dreams and hopes. In our memories, we increasingly want to return to the world of childhood - summer, where joy and light reign, as opposed to cruel reality, loneliness and existentialism. But it is becoming more and more difficult to get into this world, to dissolve at least mentally in the sun's glare. This film is about man in nature and nature in man, about cyclicality, the beginning and the end - the path to eternity. Autumn is heading towards winter, and we are so eager for light.
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Thao Nguyen Dang |
Viet Nam / 2024 / 0:23:11 |
After hearing about a pagoda's mysterious disappearance, a group of filmmakers embarks on their journey to find an explanation
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The Great Basin! Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Desert
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Eric Weeks |
United States / 2023 / 0:15:00 |
A film, book and print project that addresses climate change, the severe drought in the Western United States, gun culture, the military’s use of the basin and range of Nevada for atomic testing, cultural stereotypes, my own personal history, and my experiences in this mostly remote area. In the 15 minute short film I am creating complex collages of my still and motion captures made in Nevada with appropriated short clips from Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom, recent weather footage, The Lone Ranger, as well as John Wayne’s and other historic films, cartoons, and many other cultural artifacts, in order to speak to the place and its significance.
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Silent Chirping of Invisible Digits
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Das feine Zirpen einer Dunkelziffer |
Vera Sebert |
Austria, Germany 2023 / 0:10:10 |
Like a single film frame, insects flash for the fraction of a second, only to immediately withdraw from the field of vision again. In between their flickering body fragments, the film shows undefinable voids. What can be seen when familiar filters of vision and the narratives associated with them are missing?
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Julien Lahmi |
France / 2023 / 0:09:00 |
Inspired by Romy Schneider's revelations about her childhood, this film imagines the monstrous forms that may have hanted her nightmares and upset her psyche. When the truth can't come out, we make it into a monster.
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Competition Short Film, Cinema in Transgression, Documentary |
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