Three DocNomads films presented in Kassel Dokfest, Germany
Alexandra Yakovleva´s graduation film Does Space Dream In Bits, Suraj Bhattarai’s doc short Sound of Chewing Leaves, and Daryna Mamaisur’s doc short Sometimes It's Cool, Sometimes It's Not were selected for competition in the 39th Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival held from 15 to 27 November.
By Alexandra (Sasha) Iakokleva (Russia) • 25’ • 2021
Synopsis:
In the 20th century, the world has finally supplied humanity with the machine for the ultimate answers. And so, burdened with the eternal questions of meaning, life and existence, the film departs on a journey through the world wide web. In a jungle of connection errors, glitches, search bars and pop-up messages, we meet three people lost in cyberspace: a man who hopes that the digital realm can help him reach immortality, a young woman, who uses it as a platform for her spiritual practice, and a young man, who believes that the only reason for existence is in the meaninglessness of it. Staying safely behind the screen, we are invited to think of life through data, God through numbers and to witness the endless digital questions, many of which will never be answered.
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By Suraj Bhattarai (Buthan) • 14’ • 2021
Synopsis:
The sound of cows chewing leaves always helped him sleep well, said the filmmaker’s grandfather. Far away from his home on Bhutan, the film student Suraj Bhattarai searches for silence. It's hard to find in Brussel's urban environment, instead he hears people's stories. The cameras catch whatever is offered to the gaze while he stands at plazas and benches with his casual acquaintances made possible by the city, voices carry the narrations of elsewhere into the frame and sometimes the search for silence leads to music.
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By Daryna Mamaisur (Ukraine) • 13’ • 2021
Synopsis:
Close-up shots from a friend amidst recapitulating an experience. Being single and being in a relationship, a move across borders, farewells, and new beginnings. Portray and daily headlights. Daryna focuses on a threshold between childhood and a life in constellations of solitude and togetherness. When the procedure of relating to yourself has to be reframed to everyone and all who surround you. A snapshot of the attempt to bring order between themselves and the world. Happy, sad, angry. Happy, sad.
In Kassel DokFest catalogue