IN CINEMA
Saturday, September 20th at 9:45PM
The Harlem International Film Festival
HI: EXPERIMENTAL SHORTS
DuEls
Jonas Åkerlund, 2024, 59 min
DuEls is a dance film by the renowned Swedish director Jonas Åkerlund. It is based on Nagelhus Schia Productions’ successful dance performance choreographed by Damien Jalet and Erna Omarsdottir first presented at the Vigeland museum in Oslo in 2020. Through a series of short and visceral pieces performed in the form of a tour performance through the museum, the dance contributes to release the concentrated energy in Vigeland's iconic sculptures.
PLACENTA
MJ Golzari, 2023, 4 min
PLACENTA’ is an abstract interpretation of the concept of human life. In the expanse of life as a newborn who grows, we are standing in the infinity of moments and space. Struggling to persevere, battling to keep going, and resisting temptation.
The meaning of this existence is to bear a collection of emotions, memories, events, and dreams. This is the only possession a person has during his lifetime.
As a woman who carries the bear of being a creator, things start to be pleasant and restrained.
LA HAINE
Luca Perrin, 5 min
LA HAINE is a raw confession—a scorched love letter to impossible romances and aching desires. Over a stark, almost cinematic production, Charley Klein turns emotional violence into sonic poetry. The song delves into the heart’s contradictions: loving to the point of hatred, desiring until depletion, staying when everything screams to run.
Echoing both the cult film by Mathieu Kassovitz and the slow burn of toxic intimacy, LA HAINE moves between silent rage and unsettling sensuality. It’s a cry of wounded pride, a tragic slow dance in a room too small to hold all the tension. With unfiltered lyrics and a visceral delivery, Charley Klein offers a moment of brutal, unvarnished truth.
SOLAR Y
Kevin Jones, 2024, 4 min
A wealthy man is interested in investing in solar energy, but wants to investigate the sun's power in person before making a decision.
BLACKOUT
Andrea Ocampo, 2025, 6 min
A young woman finds herself caught in Deja Vu at the edge of a subway platform, a duffel bag in hand. When she realizes she doesn’t know its contents, she opens a possibility murkier than the NYC underground.
DREAMING HanaH
An Hyun Jung, 2024, 13 min
HanaH, who obsessively attaches importance to the value of the good(善), descends from the (image of) heaven : idea to earth : reality as she discovers the hypocrisy in the world she lives in. In the process of falling, she goes through abortion surgery, that is, accepting death and returning to the origin - the state of nothingness(無). Returning to an empty body, HanaH stands again in front of a world that has become meaningless. On the empty canvas, HanaH paints a red old tree. She takes root in the earth through an image of the tree. Even though she lost her leg to go up to a higher place, she exists as the snake closest to the ground(life).
$15 General Admission / $7 Reduced Price
