Filmmaking is always collective and involves dozens or even hundreds of people. Instead, directing is mostly individual, 'auteur'. However, for film collectives, the filmmaking process is no longer an individual experience. It becomes more horizontal, inclusive and open to experiments.
For some film collectives from this program, filmmaking merges with activist practices. The directors reflect on anthropo(capitalo)cene, speciesism, climate change, and extractive capitalism. They politicize migration, criticize colonialism and patriarchy, speak on behalf of marginalized and racialized people of colour.
SIMILAR IMAGE
Lera Malchenko, Oleksandr Hants (fantastic little splash)
Ukraine | 2020, 9 min
On the beach or in the forest, when you close your eyes, you hear the sound of water, wind, rustle leaves, insects. You can still hear the motorboat, ringtone, highway, drone buzzing, plant.
When you just listen, the sounds mix; gently comes that all this nature is not the first or the second, it is the canvas, including you. But as soon as you open your eyes, you notice order everywhere. Human ordered the world more and more rapidly, until he found himself in the forest — unpredictable and magical * • It seems if you go deeper, you will have to expose yourself to danger and disappear * it also seems that this disappearance is not about absence, but about another form of presence.: *
LITTLE LOWER THAN THE ANGELS
Neozoon Art Collective
Germany | 2019, 14 min
The Found Footage Film explores the relationship between religion and speciesism. The main focus is on the numerous Youtube representatives of creationism and the idea that man is the undisputed pinnacle of creation. The experimental film collage moves between old and new worlds of images of religious clients and questions the reasonableness of anthropocentric beliefs.
GATED COMMUNE
Camel Collective
US | 2018, 9 min
Gated Commune is a video informed by Camel Collective's interest in the language of sustainable development, global metabolic processes, and the planning of the built environment. Footage is drawn from an archive of still and moving images harvested from online sources, and the voiceover consists of a hypothetical account of two future tendencies in architecture and the social behaviors that the built environment generates and reinforces.
THE KILLING OF ČÁHCERÁVGA
Miracle Workers Collective
Finland | 2020, 29 min
Miracle Workers Collective’s film work The Killing of Čáhcerávga (2020) is a collision of five different short films that, together, tell a disjointed, communal narrative. Employing a call-and-response strategy, the film expresses a politicised dialogue around indigeneity, movement, and migration in contemporary Europe. The collective share an interest in exploring the potentiality in disciplinary disobedience. Travelling through dreamscapes, lonely snowy plains, absurdist capitalist underwaters, greenhouse gardens, and desert landscapes, the film stretches into a practice of impossible spatial rules, strange dialogue practices, and inconclusive, unresolved scenic endings.
DAY IN THE LIFE
Karrabing Film Collective
Australia | 2020, 32 min
One of the Karrabing's most stirring and direct films, Day in the Life depicts obstacles encountered across four points of their day. A multilayered hip-hop soundscape sees helpless statements by white media make way for the Karrabing's ultimately empowering words of resistance. "Day in the Life" is the seventh major Karrabing Film Collective work. Across five chapters - Breakfast, Playtime, Lunch Break, Cocktail Hour, and Dinner and an audioscape directed by its younger members, DIL is a visual and sonic landscape that dramatizes and satirizes the settler forms of governance and extractive capitalism that Karrabing members encounter over the course of a day.