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The Eyes is a 5-minute 16mm film on video that carries forward the artist’s silent way of communicating with a feral cat named Xiaoyu. Through the repeated gesture of blinking and the presence of Xiaoyu’s absence, the film reflects on the reciprocal gaze between human and animal, exploring perception, distance, and communication beyond language.

For as long as she remembers, Francisca lives with an inexplicable and uncontrollable aversion to belly buttons. Nothing makes her more anxious than this simple part of the body and the shapes in the world that resemble it. When therapy isn't enough to solve her cherished phobia , Francisca turns to other types of methods - without any scientific basis and not recommended for anyone who suffers from the same condition.

Maybe all begin with the eschatological prophecy of a clown duo.
Set against the brutal architecture of a dystopian universe, a silhouette subjected to metamorphoses confronts the lines. A voice suggests madness. Language goes off the rails. La Citadelle des Clownes is a portrait of a comedian, a film journal, a metaphorical quest, the epileptic crossing of an ambushed bridge.
How to get out of the citadel?

Hyeonjin, Jaelee, and Parang attempt to experiment with grieving and building a relationship. Each of them plays a specific role, but we cannot draw a line between what’s acting and what’s real.

Lectorium, Sevcable Port

This program is dedicated to the phenomenon of flicker — one of the most radical techniques of experimental cinema, which changes conventional ways of perceiving image and sound, transforming them into a liminal cinematic experience. The historical starting point here, of course, was Tony Conrad’s structural film The Flicker (1966), which opened up a new field of possibilities for the authors of experimental cinema, who subsequently used this technique with varying degrees of intensity.

However, it was important for me to intentionally expand the notion of flicker itself and to trace how this principle manifests across a variety of examples: in the pulsation of sound, ultra-rapid editing, phase repetition, color mixing, the duplication of text, and the layering of abstract imagery.

All of this makes it possible to address the potential fragmentation of film — its capacity to break apart into discrete impulses, ruptures, and intervals. Yet it is precisely through the rhythm and tension of these ruptures that filmmakers reassemble their works, transforming fragmentation into a unified sensory experience.

71 min

Program:

1. Yoonseo Lee, Epic Corpse Play (2026)
2. Lucie Leszez, La Citadelle des Clownes (2026)
3. Francisca Alarcão, O (2026)
4. Xun Wang, The Eyes (2025)

Saint Petersburg, Russia