Laborat
Interior, day. Oncological Research Centre in Berlin, January 2011. A film team meets with researchers. Using analogue cinematographic methods, the film crew records experiments performed on mice. The mice are forced to undergo diverse procedures. Whether the film deals with one or several tests, one or several mice, is difficult to ascertain – the tests and the animals are too similar. Parallel to this, the film crew documents their own activities, necessary to make the recordings.
The Chicken
As a present for her sixth birthday, Selma gets a live chicken. When she realises the animal is going to be killed to feed the family, she decides to save it and set it free, unaware of the high stakes such action will lead to. While trying to bring back the missing chicken, Selma's mum becomes the target of a sniper shoot. It's Sarajevo, the year 1993.
Arekara – The Life After
Five testimonies of an apocalyptic and surreal event.
You Can't Do Everything At Once, But You Can Leave Everything At Once
Without knowing it, we attach significance to phantom stories that circulate around us. Thus, in 2011 Marie-Elsa Sgualdo discovered the work of Spanish director José-Luis Guerin, and the desire to contact him was aroused in her.
“I thought about sending him a letter in the form of auto-fiction to try to express what had moved me in his films. /…/ I undertook to breathe life into what I would call rumours, without obliging myself to always tell the truth.” (Marie-Elsa Sgualdo)
Down on the Corner
Beer, cigarettes or margarine, the corner store in Sirća has it all. It's the meeting point of those who didn't emigrate. No work, no money, but a lot of humour and friendship. Everyday life in central Serbia and maybe soon all over Europe?
The verdict
Sixteen years after the war, in the main square of Zagreb several thousand people gathered to watch a live broadcast of the verdict on the Croatian generals. Through a series of close-ups, the film documents the eruption of emotions caused by the verdict.