Festival internazionale Segni della Notte - Urbino |
International Festival Signs of the Night - Urbino |
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9° Festival internazionale Segni della Notte - Urbino - April 2 - 6, 2025
23th International Festival Signs of the Night - Italy
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Sala del Maniscalco
Urbino
Sunday April 6, 2025
14 h
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Emperica |
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Kris De Meester, Ron Chiers |
Belgium / 2024 / 0:09:02 |
Against the backdrop of societal collapse, two powerful voices engage in a high-stakes debate over the future of humanity. Should mankind be placed under total control to safeguard its survival, or should they be granted the freedom to shape their own destiny, even if it means risking self-destruction?
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Vernacular Dreamscapes: Nocturnal Dream Disposal |
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Marc Richter |
Germany / 2024 / 0:08:32 |
"Nocturnal Dream Disposal" is the first part of "Vernacular Dreamscapes" a multi-part audiovisual project with texts by Marc Richter, music by Black To Comm, visuals by Neue Deutsche Kunst (all the same person actually) and the voices of five artists of which Inger Wold Lund and Felicia Chen (Dis Fig) can be heard as short voiceovers in this film. The overall theme of "Vernacular Dreamscapes" is nature as a zone of the unknown and uncanny, an alien and alienated territory, a deserted zone. This is counteracted by the appearance of dreamlike and absurd phenomena and inscrutable cavernous architecture. A stringent plot is never revealed, reality remains vague. The zone is inhabited by places, dreams, voices and supernatural creatures and artifacts; drug-induced experiences are creating a psychedelic time-stretching experience. We’re reminded of so-called "Involuntary Parks“, forbidden areas made uninhabitable by human-made disasters.
A primitive AI creates a world where Dhalgren meets The NeverEnding Story in Stalker/Ballard territory. ac
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Prayer of the Sea |
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Martin Gerigk |
Germany / 2025 / 0:06:30 |
A composer recounts a dream from his youth that inspired the slow movement of his first string quartet, Prayer of the Sea. The dream, depicting a peaceful dissolution into the sea and wind, symbolized his future death. Decades later, rediscovering a drawing from the quartet's premiere - perfectly capturing the dream’s essence - revived its emotions. Now older, he reflects on the dream’s message: a serene acceptance of life’s inevitable end. Prayer of the Sea is an audiovisual elegy offering a calm perspective on the universal experience of passing.
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Your Dream is my Dream |
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Marina Sagona |
United States / 2023 / 0:17:15 |
Your Dream is my Dream is a video about ancestral memory, shared identity and the collective unconscious.
According to C. G. Jung we are all born with common patterns and ancestral memories, that he calls archetypes, that are the exact same ones throughout lands and cultures. These memories and the collective unconscious manifest itself mainly through art and dreams, particularly reoccurring dreams, that with minimal variations are indeed the same for all of us.
We are all connected and somehow we all dream the same dreams.
The chorus of reoccurring dreams in Your Dream is My Dream can be traced back to four main categories - impossibility, unpreparedness, self-consciousness and loss.
Following a specific and different logic for each category, subtitles give additional body to the voices, both in Italian and in English.
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In the Noise of the Downpour |
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Oleksandr Stupak |
Ukraine / 2024 / 0:11:47 |
The film is a contemplation of life through the prism of war. It is a premonition of global world changes... and a hope for the prudence of humanity.
Human beings live in a world of memories, fears and passions, dreams and hopes. In our memories, we increasingly want to return to the world of childhood - summer, where joy and light reign, as opposed to cruel reality, loneliness and existentialism. But it is becoming more and more difficult to get into this world, to dissolve at least mentally in the sun's glare. This film is about man in nature and nature in man, about cyclicality, the beginning and the end - the path to eternity. Autumn is heading towards winter, and we are so eager for light.
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When There Won´t Even Be Any More |
Quand il n´y aura même plus |
Anthony C. Cajan |
France / 2024 / 0:04:45 |
IIt's about. Of a man, of a panic, of a fury. Of a war. A fright. But it may be something else.
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Candleknife |
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Jon Hammerbeck, Neil Harvey |
France / 2024 / 0:04:45 |
A sound and image response to these times, death and life. Life is a mixed bag, and we grab it because it’s our only bag. It’s plush with knives and we pick it up, and find in it sweets and nuts, and blood. Ruin has its joys, and triumph its sorrows. "You don't make the movie. The movie makes you."
- Jean-Luc Godard
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Transit |
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Telemach Wiesinger |
Germany / 2025 / 0:14:43 |
TRANSIT is a 16mm film poem with a soundtrack by Martin Bergande, a visual journey across the borders of the EU to the edges of Europe with the aid of tangential force and the means of transport car, train, ship and aeroplane across the borders of the EU to the edges of Europe.
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