The moonscreen lights up every night between 22:00 and 04:00. The timetable can be found at the threshold of its magical circle. Enter and get lost in the motion capture wilderness of cinematographic experiences. Find the large Acacia tree by the lake and drop into the sand dune amphitheatre for a hallucinatory audiovisual ride.
trailer: Sebastián Rodillo
Wednesday
22:00 – 01:00 Meanwhile In The Parasphere (live AV)
Sebastian Schaevers
‘Meanwhile in the Parasphere’ depicts a state of being. Reflections on a global downfall while everyone’s looking up. Are we about to witness the sublime aesthetic experience of our own demise? Will indifference conquer resilience? Experience a dystopian future, with a dash of hope, in an immersive, spherical setting.
01:00 – 04:00 Memories Never Fade (live AV)
Samantha Millows, Valentin Wedde & Biofeedback
A performance of stories, insights and reflections from the far corners of the internet, all warping and woofing to weave an alternative musical tapestry. This live audiovisual performance transcends the dancefloor, delving into deeper realms of human expression, and concludes with a live act by Selvfeed, the fusion of Biofeedback and Selv Ikei.
Thursday
22:00 – 23:00 Esta é uma História sobre Água
Kathleen Harris & Samuel Viana
This short documentary (Portuguese/English) explores the impacts of industrial agriculture and a changing climate on a rural community in southern Portugal, where multinationals grow berries bound for supermarkets across the UK and Europe.
23:00 – 01:00 Presented by Monstra and Punto y Raya: Abstract Animated Shorts
Monstra – Festival de Animação de Lisboa
For the third year in a row, MONSTRA festival takes over our moonscreen with a diverse and quirky program of animated short films that celebrate human and artistic transversality. The films are presented under a partnership with Punto y Raya Festival which curated a screening with some of the best works from 2023 and a special selection of films made by women.
.:-=+*#%@ – Luke Shannon
&More – Ho Tsz-wing
25/25 – Aga Jarząb, Kinomanual, Maciek Bączyk
4:3 – Ross Hogg
A Imortalidade do Caranguejo – Giacomo Manzotti
A Silent Sound – Maï Calon
Abstract Colour Fields – Sabrina Schmid
Arch.Chuva – Yulia Glukhova, Alexandra Gavrilova, Kamil Shaimardanov
As Falhas – Gao Yang
Bildraum – Dirk Koy
Colinas – Maria Constanza Ferreira
Constela – Blanca Rego
Crux Film – Lilli Carré & Alexander Stewart
Dunas – Simon Holmedal
Earl Grey – False Horns [INP031] – Gilbert Sinnott
Evanescência – Blas Payri
Fazendo os Padrões se Moverem – Ian Helliwell
For Tashi – Rebecca Ruige Xu, Jiayue Cecilia Wu
Function – Victoria Bylin
Help Desk – Edwin Rostron
Intersextion – Richard Roger Reeves
Mayur – Vibeke Sørensen
Moving Movements [6 Moments, 19 Fragments] – Gwendolyn Lootens
O/S – Max Hattler
Pneumomania – Ghazal Majidi, Behrang Najafi
Reshet – Rachel Gutgarts
Sons do Calor do Fogo – Aurora Gasull Altisent
The Dancing Line – Shelley Dodson
Transitoriedade – Sylwia Zolkiewska
01:00 – 02:00 A selection of animated shorts by you : )
Water is Love – Ludwig Schramm & Rosa Pannitschka
About the power of regenerating water cycles and building a culture of care.
Of Stars and Fables – Alla Dmitrievna Prokopyshyna
A short animation about a teenage boy who runs away to a bizarre, imaginary world.
Between the Body and the Land – Lena Lewis King
Conjuring a feminist gaze through psychic and spiritual aspects of lived experience, this poetic reflection of a film looks at the impact of techno-capitalism on the economic, the ecological, and the ontological
La Reine & La Statue – Mathilde Oudit
In a desert kingdom, a grief-stricken queen awakens by mistake the statue of her king on his tomb
Meanwhile in Space / Going Potato – Jonas Callebart
Stop-motion animated shorts made from trash and upcycled materials.
02:00 – 04:00 Curated by Monstra: Experimental Animated Shorts
Presented by Monstra and Punto y Raya: Abstract Animated Shorts
Monstra – Festival de Animação de Lisboa
For the third year in a row, and presenting twice in 2024, MONSTRA festival takes over our moonscreen with a diverse and quirky program of animated short films that celebrate human and artistic transversality. The films are presented under a partnership with Punto y Raya Festival which curated a screening with some of the best works from 2023 and a special selection of films made by women.
Friday
22:00 – 23:00 HERITALES – International Heritage Film Festival
A selection of films from this year’s competition at the festival HERITALES in Évora, Portugal, which promotes anthropological knowledge of different cultures through cinema.
Birubala – https://www.heritales.org/wp/birubala/
Smoke and Diamond – https://www.heritales.org/wp/smoke-and-diamond/
Wedding Night – https://www.heritales.org/wp/wedding-night/
Guardians of Birth in Chapada Diamantina – https://www.heritales.org/wp/guardians-of-birth-in-chapada-diamantina/
23:00 – 00:00 A selection of animated shorts by you : )
Here, there and everything in between – Sarah Saleh
Taking you on an immersive journey through different times and places, the notions of home and displacement unravel in a search for how sound and images shape our experiences, memories, and identities.
Breath, Walk, Die! – Anna Bogomolova
A neo-rave metaphor for journeying through life. Three enigmatic figures traverse the landscapes of sound and light. Each breath marks the passage of time, each step brings closer the inevitable. Yet each movement holds potential for joy and transformation.
Between the Body and the Land – Lena Lewis King
Conjuring a feminist gaze through psychic and spiritual aspects of lived experience, this poetic reflection of a film looks at the impact of techno-capitalism on the economic, the ecological, and the ontological.
Neblina – Milene Coroad0
Milene Coroado’s critical spirit is based on the experience and the consubstantiation of the concept of melancholy in the relationship with time (as a brief and inconsequential passage) and with life (as a shadow without consistency) – where days are all the same and time extends endlessly into a kind of death in which nothing happens and nothing will happen.
00:30 – 04:00 Curated by Curtas: Experimental Portuguese Shorts
Curtas Vila do Conde – International Film Festival
Rooted in northern Portugal, this film festival has been featuring a broad spectrum of Portuguese experimental cinema and its emerging talents for over 30 years. For this third co-curation of our moonscreen, they serve us with films by Pedro Maia, Rainer Kohlberger, and a mix of experimental Portuguese shorts.
Curtas Vila do Conde presents Pedro Maia:
Vessel “Passion – Movement III”
March of Time
Vessel “Paplu (Love That Moves The Sun)”
Janela do Inferno
Vessel “Torno-me Eles e não eu (For Remedios)”
Berlin Feuer
Shapednoise “Blaze”
Shackleton & Zimpel with Siddhartha Belmannu – The Ocean Lies Between Us
Curtas Vila do Conde presents Rainer Kohlberger:
There must be some kind of way out of here
It has to be lived once and dreamed twice
Keep that dream burning
Not even nothing can be free of ghosts
Moon Blink
Humming, fast and slow
Agência – Portuguese Short Film Agency presents Portuguese Shorts:
Cul de Sac de Mário Macedo & Vanja Vascarac
Entre a luz e o Nada de Joana Sousa
The Detection of Faint Companions de Sandro Aguilar
Strata Incognita de Romea Muryn, Francisco Lobo, Amaia Sánchez-Velasco & Jorge Valiente Oriol
Saturday
22:00 – 04:00 Curated by NotBinaryCode
NotBinaryCode was founded in 2022 with the intention of developing and holding safe spaces for Lisbon’s Algorave, Live Coding and AudioVisual Technology communities. Our collective is dedicated to openness and transparency in all levels. Queerness is what we strive for – we love weird music, scrappily written code, rejected bodies and invisible identities. Be it by creating bits or by creating memories, we forge the futures that make us more connected, less carbon.
22:00 – 23:00 Short film exhibition
Manguezal – At4ci
Como me esquecer do inverno – Mari Moraga
Teste 16180 – Ricardo Santos
23:00 – 02:00 Live coding concerts ‘algorave’
Ndr0n
Quendera
Violeta
02:00 – 04:00 Live ambient audiovisual experience by NotBinaryCode
Sunday — Closing Reflections
23:45 – 00:00 Lahooti
Matthieu Paley
This is a story about a group of people who are tough yet tender, and whose devotion endures in the name of love, connection, and tradition. The filmmakers shine a light on a part of the world that is underrepresented and often misunderstood.
00:00 – 00:30 Dos Noches y Tres Dias
Tomás Fernández Vértiz
This film was shot in the small town of Chinampas, Jalisco, located in the centre of Mexico with a population of less than 2000. The town remains a site of constant change for members of the community, who have repeatedly chosen to migrate between Mexico and the USA seeking better opportunities.
00:30 – 01:30 Whispers of Earth (live AV)
Margaux Gazur & Elisa Cucinelli
A live weaving of sound and vision to form a collective, environmental meditation.
01:30 – 02:30 La Chute with live performance from Luc Jotterand & his band
Sebastian Schaevers
Even when a paraglider mysteriously falls from the sky, the inhabitants of Zinal don’t seem to care. The small town in the Swiss Alps looks straight up at the melting glaciers of the Couronne Impériale. But what should they do? They cannot stop the decline of the world, but when the threat is so immediate, and the personal impotence so great, is there any other way than to respond with nihilistic, cynical indifference?
02:30 – 03:30 Other Rooms (live AV)
Adriaan De Roover, Julia Ballardt & Nico Verhaegen
A universe of colliding and diverging textures born from computerized and organic sources, each often masquerading as the other; human voices blister and warble while digital constellations transform into downy melodies, leaving neither a trace nor a sense of what may follow.
03:30 – 04:30 Borderlines (live poetry performance with music)
LB Cieza
Within his artistic practice, in a context of unbearability and misery, this multidisciplinary artist tries to develop strategies to challenge rationalist absurdity and create portals of rebellion that can restitute a belief in the living. How to bend alienation and immobility into resistance and belief?
04:30 – 05:30 Voice Actor (live AV)
Closing our moonscreen this year, STROOM’s Voice Actor invites those remaining to remember having forgotten in this audiovisual poetic trip into the image of music as a dream.