Shorts: Haunted by the Present

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Figures from the past return, archive images are reborn and centuries-old conversations are resurrected. In these four films time takes on an ambiguous quality, letters flow freely from the present to the past and forgotten voices speak again.
Content Warning: This programme contains flashing images.

De Occulta Imagine
Stefano P. Testa / Italy / 2024 / 16 / International Premiere
Bringing his cinematic alchemy to the archives of the Italian Labour and Democratic Movement, director Stefano P. Testa transmutes the past with an inimitable presence.

Where Russia Ends
Там, де закінчується Росія
Oleksiy Radynski / Ukraine / 2024 / 25 / UK Premiere
Composed entirely of archive footage rediscovered in the Kyiv Popular Science Film Studios in 2022, this film interrogates Russian imperialism and the destruction of Indigenous land.

Angular Phoenix
Latitude fénix
Welket Bungué / Portugal, Guinea-Bissau, São Tomé and Príncipe / 2024 / 15 / World Premiere
Reanimating a Baron and the Black Princess, this speculative film summons figures from the past through bodies of the present, in a visceral call for reconciliation.
 
Letters to Vincent
Brieven aan Vincent
Hannah Van Tassel / Netherlands / 2023 / 25 / International Premiere
A group of women, patients in a psychiatric hospital, send letters to one of the institution’s former residents, Vincent van Gogh.

In this show

Film Intro
5 mins
De Occulta Imagine
16 mins
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Where Russia Ends
25 mins
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Angular Phoenix
15 mins
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Letters to Vincent
25 mins
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Film Q&A
30 mins

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Shorts: Haunted by the Present + Q&A
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Showroom - Channel 5 Screen 2
Q&A with directors Hannah Van Tassel, Stefano P. Testa and producer Lyuba Knorozok. Moderated by Jamie Allan.
Shorts: Haunted by the Present + Q&A
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Curzon - Screen 1
Q&A with directors Hannah Van Tassel, Stefano P. Testa and producer Lyuba Knorozok. Moderated by Rachel Pronger.

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