Experiments @ Amsterdam Independent Film Festival
At the Amsterdam Independent Film Festival, we focus on film. This year's edition will bring independent artistic visions to an audience that demands a more fulfilling experience than the latest Hollywood fare.
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Portals (United States) by Kathi Hendrick, Benjamin Henretig, Cornelia Hodges
PORTALS explores the body, nature, and heart as doorways into deeper dimensions of self and our inherent interrelatedness. Through movement, imagery, and original music, the film enters the liminal space between inner and outer worlds, where the body becomes a threshold into feeling, knowing, int...
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Dowsing (United States) by Tim Feeney
Ten repetitive sonic interventions within the eroded landscapes of the Burren, County Clare, Ireland.
These occur at sites of local “anti-monuments:” a kilometers-long, natural limestone pavement high above Galway Bay; stone farm walls and remnants of circular structures on hillsides; cairns near... -
Long night alone (United States) by Adam E. Stone
Using intertitles, elements of slow cinema, the absence of an audio track, and other experimental filming and editing techniques, long night alone explores complex grief, depersonalization/derealization, the creative process, and hope.
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The Last Day (Italy) by Michael Fantauzzi
A man who has long withdrawn from the world realizes that no sign of human presence reaches him anymore. He decides to seek the reason for this silence and discovers that the world is now deserted. After wandering for some time through this disorienting landscape, he begins to perceive unexpected...
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Natal Kick, Cosmo Ground (Korea, Republic of, South Korea) by Jaeik Kim
Under the occupied shadows, floating cosmo ground, xenoliths, and the breaths perceived from all beings are increasingly coarsened by humanity’s collective experiments. This work considers all existing entities as pioneers of a sentient cosmos, thinking not only from Earth but from the universe a...