They (no longer) remember + Jirapo + City of Light + ti y l tt e dr ps ff sp c
Four experimental short films about memory, landscape and the traces history leaves in the present: 'They (no longer) remember' by Hira Nabi, 'Jirapo' by María Rojas Arias, 'City of Light' by Joséphine Privat and 'ti y l tt e dr ps ff sp c' by Anne Gry Friis Kristensen.
They (no longer) remember
Hira Nabi / Pakistan / 2026 / World Premiere / 10 min
A silent visual poem dedicated to the artist's grandfather, who seeks answers and finds new questions in the organic surroundings.
With simple means and great poetic power, Hira Nabi has created a silent visual poem – a cinematic letter told through subtitles – to her grandfather. In beautiful 8mm film images, we move through unnamed landscapes, botanical gardens, and forests while a deep red sun hangs low on the horizon. Nabi seeks kinship with familiar and unfamiliar plants, recalls childhood memories, and reflects on a contemporary world of violence and war. ‘They (no longer) remember’ is a cinematic work that lets the world and its light flow through itself as it moves along highways, rivers, and hidden paths.
Jirapo
María Rojas Arias / Colombia & Portugal / 2025 / European Premiere / 20 min
A beautiful Colombian film that draws parallels between native bee species, the country's colonial past, and a female biologist's family history.
The images feel as organic as the world that Colombian artist María Rojas Arias captures with her analog film camera in her beautiful and suggestive film ‘Jirapo’. A film that draws original connections between a woman’s studies of a species of native bees that have existed in tropical areas since before the European invasion of America, to the country’s colonial past. During one of her excursions, she discovers several of these nests in the cemetery where her ancestors are buried, raising questions about the relationship between human death, the body, violence, and resistance.
City of Light
Joséphine Privat / Frankrig / 2025 / International Premiere / 15 min
The earth beneath Paris is a twilight world of fungi, data centers, and secret communities that meet in silence beneath the city. An underground network of connections is mapped out in a dark film.
Deep beneath Paris, a network of connections opens up. Here we encounter a dark world of fungal spores, data centers, and secret communities that silently explore the tunnels in stark contrast with the cosmopolitan ‘City of Lights’ above ground. Joséphine Privat’s film explores and maps the material conditions of the urban world we know. A parallel and almost cosmic universe submerged in eternal darkness.
ti y l tt e dr ps ff sp c
Anne Gry Friis Kristensen / Denmark / 2026 / World Premiere / 20 min
Field recordings of the Atacama desert of Chile and analogue 8mm images explore the grainy, silent textures of sand, dust and noise.
Sound and film artist Anne Gry Friis Kristensen’s new film work was created in the Atacama Desert in Chile, where the sound recordings were made on location in parallel with the film’s grainy, analog narrow-gauge images. ‘ti y l tt e dr ps of sp c ‘ (which, if you allow yourself to fill in the blanks, can be read as ‘tiny little drops of space’) is a sensory, site-specific work that explores the tactile qualities of sand, dust, and noise in the barren landscapes. An audiovisual experience that uses moving images – and not least sound – as its magical medium to recreate the desert within ourselves.