ŻUBROFFKA festival at the Arsenal Gallery power station
The 12th edition of the International Short Film Festival ŻUBROFFKA will take place from 6 to 10 December 2017. The festival is already a brand of its own – it’s the biggest event of its kind in this part of Europe! For over a decade, ŻUBROFFKA has been building cultural bridges between East and West, North and South, making Bialystok and Podlasie a meeting point for creative energy from around the world. ŻUBROFFKA means fantastic films, unique get-togethers with the artists, workshops, panel discussions , fiery concerts and interesting exhibitions.
In 2017, for eight festival competitions, we selected 126 most interesting films (out of almost two thousand!). As usual, the program will also feature special screenings of short films from all over the world. Within five days, the audience will have a chance to see a total of almost 300 shorts for which – as always – admission is free.
SCREENINGS AT THE ARSENAL GALLERY POWER STATION
6.12.2017, 18.00
Żubroffka Special: The Universe Is Stranger Than Fiction – Visions from The Philip K. Dick Film Festival
admission free
A special selection of films from The Philip K. Dick Film Festival based in New York. We will delve into themes that resonate in fiction written by the festival patron. Who are we and where are we heading? What does it mean to be human? What is the nature of reality. Is there more than one reality? Paranoia – whom can we trust?
Special Guest: Daniel Abella, the director of the festival
Program:
Adam, Veselin Efremov, Denmark, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Sweden, UK 2016, 3’
Sociopaths, A.T., Japan 2016, 5’
Synchronous, Ricardo Fernández, Colombia 2016, 14’
Tears in the Rain, Grant Harvey, South Africa 2017, 11’
Beyond the Door, Brent Murray, USA 2016, 7’
The Parcel, Hayden Phipps & Brett Williams, South Africa 2015, 16’
The Plan, Pierre Teuličres, France 2016, 13’
T h e a l e p h, Cenk Guzelis, Austria 2016, 9’
UU., Jeremiah Hammerling, Singapore 2015, 9’
8.12.2017, 18:30
Competition On The Edge experiment and video-art
admission free
Aleatoria
director: Christopher Spencer-Lowe
director of photography: Christopher Spencer-Lowe
Canada 2017, 5’05”
Created by random processes, including randomized images and decision making, found footage inspired from social networks and cameras spun on constructed wheel mounts in random locations.
Bachanalia
director: Karolina Dudzic
director of photography: Piotr Pawlus
music: Adam Rosiak
Poland 2016, 7’
An allegory of revolution, decadence and Dantean hell. In a dark room servants clean after a feast. Soon the servants organize the feast themselves, more and more losing themselves in eating.
Curse of the Flesh
director: Leslie Lavielle & Yannick Lecoeur
music: Pierre figure: Guilhem Gauguier, Igor Boyer, FrancoisBessac & Mami Chan
France 2016, 17’
Invisible men aboard a pirate ship land on an exotic island, where they hope to find a stone that will free them from their invisibility. But this island is inhabited by a tribe of warrior women who worship the mysterious stone.
Дом на голове Клаузеверца
House on Clausewerz Head
director: Dmitriy Bulgakov
director of photography: Kseniya Sereda
Russia 2017, 20’22”
A.P. Clausewerz jest zwyczajną osobą, prowadzącą zwyczajne życie. Ale jedno małe zdarzenie rujnuje wszystko – na jego głowie wyrasta dom.
Hypertable – Essais sur l’amitié
Hypertable – Essay on Friendship
director: Filippo Filliger
director of photography: Filippo Filliger
Switzerland 2017, 20’
I asked a few friends to give me some of their time and an object, in order for us to try and understand together what binds us. And, fragment by fragment, the archipelago of friendship emerges out of the sounds and images we conceived.
Kyama Malo Chin Telt Kyama Bawa
My Life I Don’t Want
director: Nyan Kyal Say
director of photography: Nyan Kyal Say
music: Diramore
Birma 2016, 11’54”
A short animated film about the life of a Birman girl, inspired by the true stories.
Les îles
Islands
director: Yann Gonzalez
director of photography: Simon Beaufils
France 2017, 23’
Characters wander through an erotic maze of love and desire.
PLAN YOUR VISIT
Opening times:
Thuesday – Sunday
10:00-18:00
Last admission
to exhibition is at:
17.30