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shareAn unyielding neck, impossible house hunts, surveillance center workers, a hallucinatory eye exam. In these shorts, a latent, peculiar state of siege leaks into the everyday, and time and location become each other, without past or future. Title from Mahmoud Darwish’s A State of Siege.
In this program
A South Facing Window
Directed by Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir
On the verge of divorce, apartment hunting becomes its own fragile escape for a volatile young couple caught in the congestion of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
A Very Straight Neck
Directed by Neo Sora
A woman suffers from neck pain, haunted by stiffly bowing figures and a deceased friend. As ordinary movements become unbearable, she moves through the quiet violence of a crumbling world.
The Last Thing I Think Saw
Directed by Justin Kaminuma
An optometrist appointment induces a paranoid psychosis where liminal spaces question the medicalized condition of humanity through the looking glass.
Anatomy of a Call
Directed by Arnold Tam
Three phone calls, three loosely intertwined characters treading water in Hong Kong, from a burnt-out film producer, a guru-like telemarketer, and a forgetful mother.
Citizen-Inmate
Directed by Hesam Eslami
Stories of surveillance and resistance, and the everyday life of exhausted workers who install and monitor ankle trackers for Tehran citizens under house arrest.
Mirage: Eigenstate
Directed by Riar Rizaldi
Edited in the style of American astronomer and planetary scientist Carl Sagan’s 1980s television series Cosmos, a fantastical synth’y exploration of diverse interpretations of reality – from tropical Sufi mysticism and monorealism to theories of quantum mechanics.
Dates & Times
UltraStar Cinemas Mission Valley
Tue, Nov 11
5:35 pm
