The Experimental Cinema and Video Art Competition

Two choirs travel through sound, space, and memory—exploring the connections between land and body, landscape and voice, as they echo the past in the present and listen for what the next moment may hold.

Between operations and training, Air Force aircraft cut through the sky and the pastoral landscape of the Galilee. The private home becomes an arena of hyperarousal and joins the array of surveillance cameras on the border.

The film follows a couple and their friend visiting from London during their vacation at the Dead Sea on October 7, 2023. The experience is depicted through three time periods, shifting from denial to moments of rupture.

During the war in Israel, Eran — an Elvis impersonator living with his parents — faces a curse that elicits a haunting tale. The edit weaves his actions together with escape room operators and their music.

I ran away from home in October, just when the war started. In this liminal period, I encountered both the beauty and the grief of being connected and attached.

A puppeteer is invited to a kibbutz to create a play after October 7. Guided by a puppet-therapist, his process becomes a séance with the spirits of Israeli artists who turned to art in times of war.

Portrait of a child looking inward. With the participation of Eviatar Huri.