Experimental Film category for Wales IFF 2022.
Try To
Feeling guilty means being lost, hurt, sad, paralyzed, hopeless, angry. “Try To” should make us feel all of the above. It is a story about guilt and a story about a question: Can we keep on living, knowing what we have done? The world that surrounds our main character John, is fabricated by his mind, his thoughts, fears, hopes and memories. John has encapsuled himself in this
imaginary world to keep out the real one. However, through his senses, the outside keeps creeping in. The things he hears and feels in the real-world weave into his imaginary experience, hinting at what he has done. He can now choose to keep
ignoring reality and with it the ones that need him the most, or he can come back into the real-world and live with his guilt. John will never be able to live a normal life again, but for his family he at least must try to.
imaginary world to keep out the real one. However, through his senses, the outside keeps creeping in. The things he hears and feels in the real-world weave into his imaginary experience, hinting at what he has done. He can now choose to keep
ignoring reality and with it the ones that need him the most, or he can come back into the real-world and live with his guilt. John will never be able to live a normal life again, but for his family he at least must try to.
28 minutes
Cof ar Goll - Lost Memory
A surreal poetic film about self-identity. Abstract imagry depticts a therapist's attempt to help a patient recconect with themself. Made for the Straight 8 competition and selected as one of the top 25 films.
3 minutes
The savior
A little girl lives with her dad in a village with his dad. after losing her mom, she tries to save the fishes instead.
15 minutes
IN THE GARDEN OF FORKING PATHS
Just before conditions on Planet Earth became unsuitable for human life, a small group of children received a message from a faraway galaxy: an ancient civilization’s plea for notes describing life on Planet Earth. In The Garden of Forking Paths is made from all that is left of those notes.
70 minutes
Allowed exceptions: Wales.
Dance More
Are you a compulsive over-achiever? Dance More encourages us to value pleasurable experiences over mindless achievement.
Dance More is one of 9 videos that comprise Directions to Enough, an experimental, self-help video series. The series presents guidelines for slowing down, becoming more present, and accepting difficult circumstances while maintaining high levels of creativity, productivity, and agency. These guidelines were first articulated during the Art of Enough podcast series. (Segment 5 – Directions to Enough – Jay Sullivan, 2018)
Each video in the Directions to Enough video series has several intentions: 1) communicate to the audience a useful guideline for improving psychological and emotional health, 2) explore and expand the strategies and motifs related to traditional instructional videos, 3) create a unique creative process where the production of the video creates improved psychological and emotional health for the filmmaker.
Dance More is one of 9 videos that comprise Directions to Enough, an experimental, self-help video series. The series presents guidelines for slowing down, becoming more present, and accepting difficult circumstances while maintaining high levels of creativity, productivity, and agency. These guidelines were first articulated during the Art of Enough podcast series. (Segment 5 – Directions to Enough – Jay Sullivan, 2018)
Each video in the Directions to Enough video series has several intentions: 1) communicate to the audience a useful guideline for improving psychological and emotional health, 2) explore and expand the strategies and motifs related to traditional instructional videos, 3) create a unique creative process where the production of the video creates improved psychological and emotional health for the filmmaker.
2 minutes
