SHORT FILMS I + LAWS OF THE LIZARD

STATIONS
Short Documentary

FRANCE 2018, D: JULIEN HUGER, 23 min., NO DIALOGUE

The Alps in winter. Men and machines engage in a strange ballet to shape the mountain. The territory resists and reality collides with the imaginary.

 

KINSETSU
Short Fiction Film

AUSTRIA 2017, D: CLEMENS WIRTH, 2 min., NO DIALOGUE

In 2004 they discovered a new planet, since then known as planet nine.This is an attempt to visualize textures, surfaces and organisms of this so called planet nine, in an very abstract macro way set to an pulsating sound score.

 

WATER FOLDS
Short Documentary

SOUTH KOREA 2017, D: SEO BIANN, 17 min., KOREAN; ENGLISH SUBTITLES

The film is about old female divers in Jeju island of Korea, who keep their unique manual way of working from their very young ages. These women who are disappearing for social and natural reasons testify somehow the basic energy of life and of the human itself. The film follows their daily routine traced by their movements, voices, respiration, and force on living.

 

BECOMING
Short Documentary

NETHERLANDS 2018, D: JAN VAN IJKEN, 6 min., NO DIALOGUE

A short film about the miraculous genesis of animal life. In great microscopic detail we see the ‚making of‘ an Alpine Newt in its transparant egg from the first cell division to hatching. A single cell is transformed into a complete, complex living organism with a beating heart and running bloodstream.

 

LAWS OF THE LIZARD
Nature Documentary
USA, SOUTH AMERICA 2017; D: NEIL LOSIN, NATE DAPPEN; 51 min., ENGLISH, EUROPEAN PREMIERE

Meet the creature that scientists believe is the key to the story of life and how it evolves: the anole. A backyard lizard is helping us decipher the past, present and future of life on Earth. Few creatures have revealed as many biological secrets about the workings of life on Earth as the backyard lizard, also known as the anole. Join biologists Neil Losin and Nate Dappen on their yearlong examination of this humble but fascinating creature and its remarkable powers of adaptation. It’s a whirlwind journey that takes us from Caribbean rainforests to the city of Miami leading to incredible discoveries about the laws of the lizard.