The Revolution Against Death + Fahrenheit + 7 Summers
Three short films about resistance, survival and the emotional temperature of political struggle: 'The Revolution Against Death', 'Fahrenheit' and '7 Summers'.
The Revolution Against Death
Joshua Oppenheimer / United States, Denmark & Sweden / 2026 / 24 min
Joshua Oppenheimer is back with a short film about technology, self-deception, and the dream of immortality under the dazzling Californian sun.
Few filmmakers have had as much influence on modern documentary film as Joshua Oppenheimer. With his two masterpieces, The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence (both of which won the main prize at CPH:DOX), he changed the rules for what a documentary can be. With the post-apocalyptic sci-fi musical ‘The End’, he explored the repression and self-deception of an ultra-rich elite, and that project continues in his brand new short film.
Here, we are no longer in a bunker deep underground, but rather under the blinding Californian sun. In minimalist villas that already resemble film sets, we meet a community of aging citizens. With the help of technology, they plan to have themselves frozen after death until they can be resurrected. A disturbing visit to an environment where the question arises: Is it still self-deception if everyone else is on board with the idea?
Fahrenheit
Kamil Dossar / Iraq & Denmark / 2026 / World Premiere / 20 min
Artist Kamil Dossar's new film is an elliptical work from Iraq, where people with lizard heads appear in a film that we piece together ourselves as we experience it.
A pianist with a lizard head sits at his grand piano on a stage and works on Bach’s Goldberg Variations. A woman – also with a lizard head – goes about her work of wiping tables in an empty café overlooking Baghdad. At one of the tables, the silhouettes of a young couple sit and talk, but on the other side of the wall mirrors no one is sitting.
Many buttons are pressed in visual artist Kamil Dossar’s new video work, which simultaneously activates and deconstructs our unconscious expectations of cinematic situations. The scenes in ‘Fahrenheit’, which are based on material from his recent installation at Overgaden, resemble scenes from a film, but appear enigmatic as fragments of a world. A post-cinematic work with decolonial undertones from a country that is rarely depicted in film.
7 Summers
Bjarke Hvass Kure, Amitai Romm, Emil Rønn Andersen & Aslak Aamot Helm / Denmark / 2025 / World Premiere / 21 min
A documentation of an artistic experiment set within a state-of-the-art climate simulation facility at the scientific campus of Risø, located in the picturesque surroundings of Roskilde fjord.
‘7 Summers’ follows sections of a wheat field, a salt marsh, and a fallow plot from the surrounding local landscape as they are exposed to seven possible summers of the future, from intense heat waves to the early stirrings of a new ice age. Through a combination of AI, virtual production and timelapse these local plants are transposed into a range of imagined future landscapes.
Combining traditional documentary strategies with a synthetic visual language still in the making, the film creates a vertiginous feedback loop between present and projection, documentation and simulation, nature and artifice. Originally commissioned by the 2025 Singapore Biennial.