ALL WEEKEND // LOUNGE THEATRE

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Here, we have specially curated films on a loop all day, waiting for you to drop in, and let them wash over you. It’s a bit like stumbling into a video installation at a museum. Fine art cinema, unfolding in its own time. These works are singular, challenging, and absolutely worth the detour from the main programs. Stay for five minutes or an hour… then come back anytime for more.

Here, we have specially curated films on a loop all day, waiting for you to drop in, and let them wash over you. It’s a bit like stumbling into a video installation at a museum. Fine art cinema, unfolding in its own time. These works are singular, challenging, and absolutely worth the detour from the main programs. Stay for five minutes or an hour… then come back anytime for more.

FILMS IN THIS PROGRAM (ALPHABETICAL ORDER):

Featured
...but i’ll be BACK before you’re DONE
...but i’ll be BACK before you’re DONE

Director: Trasparente (Federico Montaresi)

Country of Origin: Italy

US PREMIERE

Synopsis: "...but I’ll be BACK before you are DONE is a found footage video exploring the pure essence of destructive energy. A relentless stream of over 500 explosions, sourced from cartoons, artificial intelligence, video games, films, online archives, and war footage, unfolds in a frantic and chaotic montage. The obsessive repetition of detonations dissolves

the boundaries between reality and simulation, turning the

video into an extreme sensory experience. The work reflects on media manipulation and the spectacularization of violence, subjecting the viewer to a perceptual overload that defies linear interpretation."

Trailer | Website

Call My Sister, Last Year
Call My Sister, Last Year

Director: Dylan Simon

Country of Origin: United States

WORLD PREMIERE

Synopsis: An experimental video shot and edited on VHS video about gender identity and transformation.

Website

Midsummer
Midsummer

Director: Masha Vlasova

Country of Origin: United States / Finland

Synopsis: Midsummer is a cyanotype photogram film, where the sunlight, along with plants, insects, and water, are all employed in the process of filmmaking. The production of the film began in Finland, during Juhannus, the celebration of the longest day of the year in, when the sun doesn’t set. Blank 16mm film strips are coated in cyanotype emulsion and exposed to sunlight with natural materials, capturing the fleeting moments of nature's cycle. The landscape is both material and collaborator, where its physicality is literally imprinted into the filmic surface. The film explores the ephemeral nature of life, the swift passage of time, and the interplay between humans and the environment. Each frame captures not only the landscape but also the transient and dynamic processes of nature, creating an image that is at once tangible and elusive, grounded in the physical world yet imbued with a sense of mystery.

Website

The Never Ending Passion Boys Crew at Captain Daniel David's on the Coast
The Never Ending Passion Boys Crew at Captain Daniel David's on the Coast

Director: Jeffrey Sundin

Country of Origin: United States

Synopsis: A body of water, a blind date, and an '84 Chevrolet in the year of a musical collective's debut release.

Sulfur
Sulfur

Director: Karen Akerman, Miguel Seabra Lopes

Country of Origin: Portugal, Brasil

Synopsis: I am the dead. I am the living.

Trailer | Website

Waves Won't Stop
Waves Won't Stop

Director: Ioannis Papaloizou

Country of Origin: Cypres

Synopsis: An experimental documentary in which the narrator evokes his childhood memories of Cyprus, and his connection to an indelible friendship defined by separation. Through vivid recollections of their lost bond, he explores themes of longing, belonging, and the enduring pull of his homeland that shaped them both. "Waves Won’t Stop" is an intimate look on a long journey of return.

Trailer