Punto De Vista Film Festival 2018

26 rue Saint-Fargeau

Margaux Guillemard

<p>26 rue Saint-Fargeau is a vertical journey through a 300-flats Parisian social estate, from the ground floor to the last floor, from dawn to dusk. By discreetly traveling through the inside of some apartments, the film creates a tender dialogue between the different floors, cultures, atmospheres, tastes for furniture and ways of thinking inhabiting the building. Until opening up on the horizon.</p>

Baronesa

Juliana Antunes

<p>Andreia wants to move out. Leid is waiting for her husband, who is in prison. They are neighbors in a poor suburban slum of Belo Horizonte, trying to escape the daily dangers of a drug traffic war happening on the outside and avoid the tragedy that comes with the rain.</p>

Configuration in Black and White / Konfiguration schwarz und weiss

Helga Fanderl

<p>The film is a composition of four black and white Super 8 originals shot at different moments and places and blown-up to 16mm. Night at a Canal, Snowfall, White Flowers for P. and Wild Geese are in-camera edited attentive observations. They witness the artist&rsquo;s way of seeing and using the camera as her instrument communing with the subject matter. In the sequence the brief silent films unfold their rhythms and poetic strength. The dancing grain of the 16mm print emphasizes the quality of film as film.</p>

Electro-Pythagoras (A Portrait of Martin Bartlett)

Luke Fowler

<p>Luke Fowler pays tribute to the work and musical ideas of Martin Bartlett (1939-93) a proudly gay Canadian composer who during the 1970s and 1980s pioneered the use of the &lsquo;microcomputer&rsquo;. Bartlett is hardly recognised, never mind canonised, in cultural life. He researched intimate relationships with technology and was particularly interested in handmade electronics where, as he states in one of his performances: &ldquo;the intimacy of handcraftedness softens the technological anonymity creating individual difference making each instrument a topography of uncertainties with which we become acquainted through practice&rsquo;.</p>

Elohim, or Divine Beings, the Energy of Light as Creation

Nathaniel Dorsky

<p>Elohim, or divine beings, the energy of light as creation. For the past several years California experienced an extreme drought. But this past winter good fortune brought a bountiful amount of storms. The spring that followed took on magical and celebratory qualities of energy, joy, fullness, and rebirth. What I did not know is that the great beauty of this magnificent spring would bring forth not one, but four films, each one immediately following the previous.. Elohim was photographed in early spring, the week of the lunar new year, the very spirit of Creation.</p>

Hello Horse! / Zirdzin, hallo!

Laila Pakalniņa

<p>The film is about how everything changes remaining the same. One could also say &ndash; how everything remains the same by changing. Well, naturally neither you or me have time to stand on the country road for hours, days and seasons, watching how everything changes remaining the same. Most probably we would never have found out how it is actually possible, and we would simply keep on living as we always have, if not for this film which uses with equal importance (and very much so) all the basic elements of film language - image, sound, light, movement (or more frequently non-movement), editing rhythm and pauses and all those things a man never thinks about walking along a country road.</p>

I Used to Sleep on the Rooftop / Kenet nam''al sateh

Angie Obeid

<p>In 2015, Nuhad, a 53-year-old Syrian woman, decided to leave Damascus. Her destination was Beirut and I, Angie, a 27-year-old Lebanese woman and her son&#39;s friend, the only possible host. Angie&rsquo;s house becomes Nuhad&#39;s sole refuge, an antechamber leading to indefinite asylum destinations. In this huis-clos, Angie observes the older lady and finds intersections between her own life and Nuhad&rsquo;s: they both are vainly trying to move out of their own walls to find the right place to exist in.</p>

IFO

Kevin Jerome Everson

<p>IFO is about three famous UFO sightings over Mansfield, Ohio, the filmmaker&rsquo;s hometown. One of several recent and upcoming films featuring people, events, and incidents centered in Mansfield.</p>

Indefinite Pitch

James N. Kienitz Wilkins

<p>A pathetic movie pitch set in Berlin slips into the murkiness of memory, and histories best forgotten or purposely ignored.</p>

Los diablos azules / The Blue Devils

Charlotte Bayer-Broc

<p>In 1907, in the north of Chile, 3600 mine workers were murdered by the military governement of Iquique during a strike. Nowdays, in Humberstone, an abandoned mine, a saddened Madonna sings a popular cantata telling these events. She arrives at the sea, and she join a group of divas too cry and scream together their revolutionnary pain.</p>

Vivian’s Garden

Rosalind Nashashibi

<p>Vivian Suter and her mother Elisabeth Wild are two Swiss / Austrian &eacute;migr&eacute; artists in living in Panajachel, Guatemala, where they have developed a matriarchal compound in an environment that offers both refuge and terror. This film takes a close and dreamy look at their artistic, emotional and economic lives, with their extended householders: Mayan villagers as guardians and home help, and an assortment of dogs, it offers a tender look at an instance of post-colonial complexity.</p>

Young & Beautiful

Marina Lameiro

<p>Poti, Nais, Ione and Das are four youngsters who have chosen to live by their own rules. But society forces them to leave their &lsquo;selfish&rsquo; aspirations behind, so they must rethink their identities through dialogue. This is the starting point of an intimate talk between them and Marina, filmmaker and friend. With her sympathetic camera, she grasps the most insightful and fragile moments of their everyday lives &ndash; dancing, waking up together, talking a walk in a beloved setting, crying or laughing as they seek out complicity to preserve their integrity. A many-sided portrait of a generation accused of being reluctant to grow up and forced to give up their dreams in order to survive.</p>

Yours Truly

Christopher Murray Charlotte Hoskins Maddi Barber

<p>Yours truly follows the trail of taxidermic pieces collected during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries by The Manchester Museum. Letters between its directors, explorers, and lords unveil the stories of specimens. From a crocodile who digested the legs of natives on the River Ganges, to the famous Manchester moth who was the obsession of a wealthy banker, they act now as uncomfortable reminders of past scientific and colonial procedures that sought to capture, order, and control animated life.</p>

Para Além de Nós (Beyond the one)

Anna Marziano

<p>Set to a breath-like rhythm, Anna Marziano&rsquo;s Beyond the One is an essayistic exploration of love&rsquo;s various guises, considering different attempts at courtship, living together, and sustaining connections with people once they have died.</p>

Events In A Cloud Chamber

Ashim Ahluwalia

<p>In 1969, Akbar Padamsee, one of the pioneers of Modern Indian painting, made a visionary 16mm film called Events In A Cloud Chamber. This was one of the only Indian experimental films ever made. The print is now lost, and no copies exist. Over 40 years later, filmmaker Ashim Ahluwalia worked with Padamsee, now 89 years old, to remake the film.</p>

Flores

Jorge Jácome

<p>In a natural crisis scenario, the entire population of Azores is forced to evict due to an uncontrolled plague of hydrangeas, a common flower in these islands.<br /> Two young soldiers, bound to the beauty of the landscape, guide us to the stories of sadness of those forced to leave and the inherent desire to resist by inhabiting the islands. The filmic wandering becomes a nostalgic and political reflection on territorial belonging and identity, and the roles we assume in the places we came from</p>

Fluid Frontiers

Ephraim Asili

<p>Fluid&nbsp;Frontiers is the fifth and final film in the series entitled&nbsp;The Diaspora Suite,&nbsp;exploring Asili&rsquo;s personal relationship to the African Diaspora. Shot along the Detroit River,&nbsp;Fluid&nbsp;Frontiers&nbsp;explores the relationship between concepts of resistance and liberation, exemplified by the Underground Railroad, Broadside Press, and artworks of local Detroit Artists. All of the poems are read from original copies of Broadside Press publications by natives of the Detroit/Windsor region, and were shot without rehearsal.</p>

O Peixe (The Fish)

Jonathas de Andrade

<p>Located on the Northeast coast of Brazil, a village of fishermen enact a ritual of embracing the fish that they have caught. The affectionate hug that accompanies the ritual marks a passage of death and a relationship between species that is imbued with an ambiguous sequence of gestures of tenderness, violence, and domination. The utopian dream of a harmonious community with its surroundings is a testament to the lack of connection between a man from the city and the nature that is at his service. Between fiction and reality, documentation and fantasy, the naturalness of domination hides the root of this relationship constituted by the constant exercise of strength, power and devotion.</p>

Optimism

Deborah Stratman

<p>Draw down the sun, boil up the gold. The impulse to relieve a winter valley of permanent shadow and find precious metal in alluvial gravel are part of a long history of desire and extraction in the northern Canadian landscape. Cancan dancers, curlers, smelters, ex city officials and a curious cliff-side mirrored disc congregate to form a Yukon town portrait.</p>

Il monte delle formiche (The Mount of Ants)

Riccardo Palladino

<p>Italian director&nbsp;<strong>Riccardo Palladino</strong>&#39;s first feature-length film,&nbsp;<em>The Mount of Ants</em>, world premiered as part of the Filmmakers of the Present competition at the 70^th&nbsp;Locarno Festival. Despite the title of the film perhaps leading you to think of a nature documentary investigating the micro-reality of a group of ants, in reality the ants are used as a means of pondering something more universal: immortality and the circle of life.</p>

The Washing Society

Lizzie Olesker Lynne Sachs

<p>When you drop off a bag of dirty laundry, who&#39;s doing the washing and folding? THE WASHING SOCIETY brings us into New York City laundromats and the experiences of the people who work there by observing these disappearing neighborhood spaces and the continual, intimate labor that happens there. The juxtaposition of narrative and documentary elements in THE WASHING SOCIETY creates a dream-like, yet hyper-real portrayal of a day in the life of a laundry worker, both past and present. Note: This is a fine cut awaiting sound mix, completed credits and color grading.</p>