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INTERNATIONAL FOUND FOOTAGE COMPETITIONThursday 21 March 2019, 8.30 pm

Moderation: André Eckardt, Nadine Bors

The winner of the International Found Footage Competition has been announced. "THE HOUSES WE WERE" by Arianna Lodeserto, 16mm, Italy 2018 convinced not only the audience, but also the jury consisting of Masha Matzke (film scholar, curator and film archivist at the Deutsche Kinemathek), Rita Schwarze (curator and initiator of the Cologne-Cuba student exchange programme) and Alexander Starck (Movie Gallery Phase IV). "In sensitive images, the film approaches the concern of questioning the presence of a historical phenomenon. In a convincing montage, the film reveals the fates of those who are continually forgotten in the official discourse," the jury said. About the movie: The first 50 years of the Low-Income Housing Institute created a veritable city  within a city to deal with what has been and still remains the main and persistent problem of Rome: housing. But what is this city made of? Who gets left out? Found footage respond. Found footage reassert.
Both prizes are donated by the Filmverband Sachsen e. V. as part of the "Audiovisual Heritage in Saxony" project with the support of the Saxon State Ministry.

The following films were nominated for the competition:

THE HOUSES WE WERE, Arianna Lodeserto, 16mm, 18:00, Italy 2018
The first 50 years of the Low-Income Housing Institute created a veritable city  within a city to deal with what has been and still remains the main and persistent problem of Rome: housing. But what is this city made of? Who gets left out? Found footage respond. Found footage reassert.

Trees Down Here, Ben Rivers, 16mm, 14:00, United Kingdom 2018
Can Brutalism be adapted and d for the 21st century? This was the challenge of aesthetics, philosophy, and construction that architecture firm 6a had to tackle when creating a new residential court for the famous Churchill College at Cambridge.

Beñesmen, Guillermo Carnero Rosell, 8mm, 02:00, Spain 2018
Beñesmen In the Canary Islands is the aboriginal culture of joy and celebration.  This film is a Found Footage shortfilm, edited with the Super 8 images that my own father filmed more than 30 years ago in Tenerife, Canary Islands. I found  three rolls of those images and I did some research about the origin of the  popular celebrations he filmed.

Wunschbrunnen - Wishing Well, Sylvia Schedelbau, 16mm, 13:00, Germany 2018
An incoherent but synchronous time. A transcendent turn, a quest for acting power, a reunion with the currents of the forest.

Am Zeppelinfeld, K.Schreier, Super8, 03:00, Germany 2017
Sketches of the former Nazi Party Rally Grounds in Nuremberg. The spirits of the past are among us.

Wellenbande, Stefanie Weberhofer, 8mm, 12:00, Austria/Italy 2018
With the grandmothers death, the desire for a family vacation was seemingly unfulfillable. By combining Super8 footage from five decades, the filmmaker fulfills that wish nonetheless. The change of generations is linked to the continuity of film technology, blurring the boundaries of generations in the Bay of Lignano.