All Films in Competition

A wintry poem about the Nordic nature. The sun moves low and days get shorter. Birds fly South, porcelain animals and insects hide from the freezing wind and snow. Only a small porcelain girl wanders the abandoned landscape with no way out.

This film is one of a collection of non-narrative, experimental short films of a river as it flows under a road bridge. They capture the light reflecting both on the river’s surface or the underside of the road bridge. This film is a single wide-angle shot of the river and underside of the road bridge.

As time passes, a number of close-up shots of the river’s surface appear and disappear as superimposed shots on the image of the river landscape below the bridge. It as if a microscope has been focused on a landscape

Concrete imagery overlays abstract imagery and/or dissolves into it. An apparent chaos of twitching colours and structures, into which a linear event suddenly breaks, ultimately disappearing into the hazy sky. What remains is a white square that serves as a frame and screen until the end of the film. The experimental sound underscores the surreal, dreamlike (traumatic?) imagery, in which there is little more than an associative anchor for our desire for interpretation.