25th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival
Laomedeia
synopsis
This experimental film follows several non-linear trajectories that are constantly evolving into various different dimensions and revealing new transitional spaces. Elements such as water, birds, and trains accompany the viewer on a dreamlike journey between the painterly compositions of an oceanic landscape and outer space.
biography
In addition to her experimental films, Boston-based South Korean visual artist Moon Youjin is also no stranger to painting, drawing, and light installations. Her works, which blur the lines between reality and dream, have been screened at a number of international film festivals. Jihlava IDFF presented her films Callisto (2014) and io (2015).
more about film
director: | Youjin Moon |
producer: | Youjin Moon |
other films in the section

Lunar observations shoted frame-by-frame and long exposures on hand processed 16mm Ektachrome film create a chronicle of the lunar phases. Th rough their layering, the filmmaker emphasizes that the observer, burdened by memory and changing frames of view, moves along a non-linear time-planes.
DETAIL:A nearly abstract figure of rounded shapes in a dark space is disturbed by clouds and brances, non-geometric signs of the physical surroundings.
Lunar Almanac
Malena Szlam
Canada, Chile / 2013 / 4 min.
section: Fascinations
Central European Premiere

An unknown entity wanders through a constructed reality to the brink of nothingness - a town in the fog. The film evokes the shadows of a grainy black-and-white dystopian landscape, from which, however, we can see mere fragments, intertwined with shots of the details of male hands. Ramir’s films are characterized by his unique style, achieved through the use of special lens filters.
“We Are Without is a visual response to life, death and self-deception.” S.J. Ramir
We Are Without
SJ. Ramir
Australia, New Zealand / 2020 / 3 min.
section: Fascinations
World Premiere

An experimental film that combines black-and-white shots of a road with shots of bicycles, manipulated into abstract collages, supplemented by a musical backdrop that is as dynamic as video-tracks of the ride. By combining both, it creates an intense physicality that acts on the viewer’s senses. "With the very first sound, I decided where the video should go - to the limits of acceleration, the centrifugal force that is geometrically enclosed after a first release, unleashed and unlimited." S. Cho
tracked
Seoungho Cho
United States, South Korea / 2020 / 4 min.
section: Fascinations
World Premiere

Documentary footage, Hollywood cinema and video games collide, overlap and submerge into each other in a Dadaist collage inspired by the poetry of Hungarian poet Mário Z. Nemes. The hypermedia nature of the present is emphasised by fragments that are free of a clear narrative backbone.
Baroque Femina (Nr.7-11)
Péter Lichter
Hungary / 2020 / 16 min.
section: Fascinations
World Premiere

FilmCOMPOSITION organizes photographs of New York in order to create a model of urban movement. The film selects inconspicuous details whose multiplication breaks through space and, in rhythmic compositions, emphasizes motifs of industrial parks or transportation networks.
Prelude 02 - 07
Maria Kourkouta
France / 2010 / 5 min.
section: Fascinations
Central European Premiere

Out of the forests of north-eastern Brazil, an essay on the relationships with nature, location and soil grows out, developing into musings on the configuration of space, proprietary demands and care about landscape. Against the background of biological diversity, which stands for a commentary from the perspective of history and culture, it introduces the issue of ownership of forests, conceivably by those who inhabit them.
"Kaleidoscopic and impressionistic views from a site in the in Brasilian 's sertão in which anthe Atikum artist Edson Barrus has preserved a tree: the Imburana which is a specy in danger. " Y. Beauvais
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Yann Beauvais
Brazil / 2019 / 23 min.
section: Fascinations
European Premiere

Sports activities, miniaturised in a stop-motion collage, become a symbol of national pride and public emotion. Two thousand American football fields, obtained from Google Earth’s satellite images, all with the same dimensions, help to create a fast game of organised images.DETAIL:Through the inclusion of a list of football teams, the compilation of graphical compositions also draws attention to the symbolism found in fandom.
Playground
Gerco de Ruijter
Netherlands / 2014 / 4 min.
section: Fascinations
Central European Premiere

A possible reconstruction of urban design and the process of planning the construction of skyscrapers – the kind of building that dominates both administrative and residential areas of Seoul. The imaginary planning process depicted here offers a critical commentary on the overcrowded metropolitan neighborhoods and the harsh scenery obscured by skyscrapers, which have become a normal everyday space.DETAIL:Tall buildings appear in the scene seemingly at random, their proximity emphasized by animation that takes place on something like a playing field.
Digital Landscaping
Sangsok Ko
South Korea / 2013 / 3 min.
section: Fascinations
International Premiere

A report on about a inner important place, presented in a classically structured format. The images were captured over the course of one year frame by frame, the main room of the artist’s flat was captured in both sound and image, although it was primarily the changes in light that were documented. The pace of observation was further smoothed during the process of enlarging from 8 to 16 mm, during which each frame was duplicated twice.
DETAIL:The window as a point of distorting the closure of a space, as a passage from concentrated encirclement to private solitude.
Aula Magna (16mm)
Andrés Denegri
Argentina / 2014 / 10 min.
section: Fascinations
East European Premiere

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John Torres
Philippines / 2019 / 13 min.
section: Fascinations
European Premiere

FilmMAGIC engages in an ironic game with the viewer’s faith in the chronological coherence of an apparently realistic scene, surprising us with repeated loops of one shot that thus become an illusionary representation of the passing of the months. Time-lapse photography allows for unexpected leaps or makes it possible to persevere through the ups and downs of life.
Movements of an Impossible Time
Flatform
Italy / 2011 / 8 min.
section: Fascinations
Czech Premiere

The melancholic atmosphere of wandering a landscape scarred by kitschy disco rainbows and colorful illustrations opens up the possibility of an extra-planetary consciousness sending a message in which references to the laws of thermodynamics and Mayan symbolism encounter critical interpretations of an expected confrontation between humanity and the cosmos.
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Taiwan / 2018 / 17 min.
section: Fascinations
Central European Premiere