Synopsis
The perspectives of British filmmaker Joanna Hogg, French director Alice Diop, and Romanian filmmaker Radu Muntean converge in this short film program around three very specific gestures: giving voice to an object, questioning the representation of bodies, and observing what escapes the gaze. In Autobiografia di una borsetta, Joanna Hogg humanizes a small handbag to trace a life journey in the first “person.” In Fragments for Venus by Alice Diop, a young woman slowly walks through the rooms of a museum, contemplating the paintings until her attention gradually focuses on how Black female bodies are represented. And in Index, which competed at the latest Locarno Festival, Radu Muntean tells the story of an ornithologist who sets up a camera in an unexplored forest and discovers the existence of a wild child. Three short films that engage in a dialogue about who looks, what is being looked at, and how cinema can transform that experience.
