IFCT Schedule

IFCT showcases a wide range of new cutting-edge experimental films, many of which have never before been presented in the United States. The films range from visually rich and dynamic and though-provoking to very short 1-3 minute strikingly intense experimental cinema.

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si ca vous derange pas, Directed by Cedric Chen

The complete collapse of a man in 4 scenes, while upstairs a party is going on wilder and wilder

Weber C Fracture Directed by Felice Naomi Wonnenberg ISRAEL

About a time in hospital. Subjective views that the bedfast filmmaker shot from bed on wheels, using the bed on wheels as a dolly. And a physiotherapy inspired performance in the hospital bed as an homage to Eadweard Muybrigde “Animals in Motion”.

IN-TIMER 47:09:21, Directed by Gregor Sailer,   Austria

Experimental Camera Obscura

Primal Directed by Cesar Gananian Brazil

Letsgoexorcism Directed by Marcus Herse

The 3 characters are stuck in a static situation and the constant demand for a start of some kind ends up in a complete disintigration

Rhythm Sketch Directed by Paul Ritt The Netherlands

A visual poem exploring the relationships between sound and movement.

Still Life (Nature Morte) Directed by Sebastien Dostie Canada

STILL LIFE is a 3-minute film that captures an event rarely seen by the naked eye—the disintegration of a human body. Using a blend of live action and visual effects to reproduce the metamorphosis, the spectacle of death is staged from a camera obscura point-of-view.

Le Monde est Immense Directed by Muriel Montini  France

A summer’s day in the countryside. A woman is sewing.
A little girl tries to attrack her attention. A boy appears ;
A few images from a super 8 movie explored in detail and recomposed with a dramatic end in mind.

Plot Directed by Julia Dogra-Brazell UK

Using the languages of the artist's childhood (French) and adulthood (English) as she travelled back and forth to Switzerland where her mother lay seriously ill, the camera was used as a diary recording little snatches of daily life, gestural moments insignificant in themselves and certainly inadequate to telling the stories of those years or what came before."Plot takes the form of a film fragment the eschews any straightforward narrative intention, causation or chronological structure. It relies instead on the material texture of the work to promote "the possibility of the emergence of memory through a visual and auditory sensation of speech and change." Susan Trangmar

Departure Directed by Carsten Bruehl Germany

When you do not know your destination, you are ready for departure.

Bueros Directed by Gunnar Hämmerle Germany

Man cutting down tree

Exit Exit Directed by Erik Urlings The Netherlands

Reality and dream are merging during a seemingly endless car ride on the Amsterdam traffic circle (A10). An intense experience of traffic and land- and cityscape. The always moving camera and the unearthly soundtrack turn cars, lights and scapes into melancholy.

Roadmovie Ruhrpott Directed by Ingo Scheel

This 7 minute film is an experimental roadmovie. I tried to create a certain atmosphere by passing through the rurhpott with its people and landscapes

Pre/Sense Directed by Takaharu Saito

An attempt to explore images as an open narrative not as a tool used to depict a fixed narrative. Images are structured according to the logic which I perceive as similar to that of dream and memory with a strong presence of location.

Knowing Me, Knowing You Directed by Johanne Nissen, Denmark

An informal study exploring subjects such as self image identity masquerade and love, the artist holds portraits up to her face. Genders ages and races are crossed, while fragments of footage are juxtaposed reveling themselves in a new and surprising contect

Whirr Directed by Timo Katz Germany

With mechanical precision this ‘landscape animation’ captures the tension between differences and repetitions of form sampled in a suburban housing estate.

Friendship (L'amitie) Directed by Robert Paquin, Ph.D.

Poetic reflections on a forest landscape painting.

One Way Directed by Blue MacAskill, UK

A young man is put on the spot analysed by the surrounding company, who does he want to be? What does he want to do?this monologue looks at one personss way of dealing with that pressure: your own identity

i am dancin where you can see me Directed by Iain Bonner, Australia

Experimental dance film featuring a character blowing in the wind.

RU Impressed Directed by Edmund Cheng Australia

Drunken boyfriends, vomiting girlfriends, reckless drivers, distraught families...the inevitable impact of alcohol on young lives... (A community service announcement short)

Catching Clouds Directed by Martina Strusny Germany

Sustain Directed by Shelagh Fenner UK

A dark compelling work with a mystical quality, it shows the artist inhaling smoke for the duration of the work. The soundtrack is the artist’s distorted voice.

Head Land Directed by Camille Brooks UK

A decade I set out to test the "Kamera of the Subkonscious" which shot directly onto typewriter ribbon A two-colour process that took out all incidental light ~ And left only the accidental

Himalayanwalk Directed by Jeanet Snijders The Netherlands

This film shows an apparently endless moving forward human being in the himalayan landscape, without defined starting point or end goal the human being continues to walk and seems to be absorbed by the elements.

Reste-La! Directed by Frederic Tachou France

Experimental film about a haunting from a person who just died

My Mother Told Me Directed by Geoffrey Weary, Australia

A young woman tells the story of her family’s destruction during the war in Cambodia, 1975-1978. Later as a refugee living with her mother in Sydney, Australia she suffers an identity crisis that is linked to the unexplained circumstances of her birth and the mystery of the father that she has never known.

The Picture of Doriana Extra Creamy with Salt Directed by Alan Langdon Brazil

Is margarine art? A man can be forgiven for creating a useful thing, as long as he doesn't admire it. The only justificaton for creation of a useless thing is that is to be admired.

Untitled (Plan for Victory) -Directed by Elodie Pong, Switzerland

Words sprayed in the snow are covered over by an avalanche in this innovative experimental short

Pineapple Turns Important, Directed by Carolina Jonsson Norway/Sweden

This is a story build upon clichéd pictures. Hawaii, palm trees, sunsets and sailors tales. In the subculture in which I have grown up there are common rules for what is beautiful and accepted. I want to investigate how it is possible to work with clichéd subject using old visual language of cliché and still make the spectator experience something new.

La carte Postale Directed by Pierre Villemin

The poetic one is based on the landscape At l' illusion qu' between Latium and Minettland in Luxembourg, a symmetry would exist

Beat II Directed by Edith Hänggi Switzerland

This video shows one wood chop of about 1.5 seconds cut into different fragments. Video and audio maintain these original synchronicity. I arranged this fragment into a rhythm by slowing down and rewinding some of the fragments

...und Geduld. Directed by christoph rothmeier Germany

Stacatto images of the smallest unit, the "ur-form" of animation discovered while wandering through a library… or a musical idea about the perception of time which is meant to turn the thematic jumps in the sequence of images into one and many stories

Future Urban Organism Directed by Martin Hablesreiter Austria

A radical discourse between the relation of cultural heritage and urbanism, two stories represent two cities without heritage

Aspie Directed by Matthias Bazyli

Simple topics like friendship coping with everyday life before the backdrop of problems with social interactions

Adom Kardomon Directed by Masahiro Ohsuka, Japan

Deux Trous Noir(Blanked Out) Directed by Gregory Marza

A man is wandering through a namelewss forest, a genuine natural maze. He tracks downa woman. But what if it turned out to be just a vague memory?

Panzer Directed by Nico Roicke Germany

A product marketed as »perfect product for the whole family« music by Mediengruppe Telekommander,

The Callgirl and the Client Directed by Marc Tobias Winterhagen Germany

A young callgirl is having monologues absurd philopsophical theoties about the NOW while her client waits for what he has called her for. Simply sex. Their disabilty to comminicate and to change the situation by stopping the dialog puts them on a loop.

Ardia Directed by carlos merino Spain

silent movie showing the parallel lives of a sheep and a child in our contemporary societies. The sheep gets limp and is sent to a slauterhouse, the child has a non-standard way of perceiving reality and is sent to an asylum

Spielend im Garten (playing in the garden) Directed by Betina Kuntzch Germany

Below (Tage Unter) Directed by Ingo Monitor Germany

A troubled lady around 60- disappears into a dark hole, encounters an old man and a young girl. Both seem to be close

Running Sushi Directed by Matthias Mondon & Natalie Squire

A Swedish Horse has a Daydream about Two Films by John Ford, Tom Briele

During my vacaion in sweden I used the digital zoom of my new camera by chance. The unexpected result: the digital zoom is a method to store daydreams

Still seeing disappeared the sailers, Directed by Christoph Oertli

This video shows a group of men gathered in the hall of a public building. The ruls of social behavior are disrupted by unexpected dynamics and gestures.

Rilke Directed by Annette Otto The Netherlands