Sofia Porscha - SEE what's happening

What do we see? What is shown by whom and how? Perception is restricted by what we know, by the information we get. The film 'SEE what's happening' raises three different layers to look at:
1) There are some objects of the Shipibo people exhibited in a museum in Tübingen.
2) Shipibo people got their relevance of the objects bound to their culture.
3) A lot of (european) museum objects were collected in colonial period – we are still living in those structures, often unconsciously reproducing them. How can we look at things differently to make the invisible visible and finally see what's really happening?

Lana Balorda - SCINTILLATING (in)visibility

Exploring the political potential of (in)visibility through optical illusion and the experiences of undocumented queer youth. Illustrating that that power is not yielded simply through seeing or being seen, but that it is the strategic use of visibility that transforms power dynamics.

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Samuel Kuebler - Oh you Something

The seemingly untouchable commodity rests unchallenged. Like a deity it accompanies us in our every day live. Always present, appearing in new shapes and forms, it accommodates the dreams of the consumer. This divinity of pleasure seeks ever more personalized ways of accessing our aesthetic realm, portraying itself as worth to be invested in, evaluating our identity, tailoring specific ways to tighten our believe in its alleged justified appearance while disguising its true origin to its worshipers.

Video and Sounds filmed/produced by Samuel Kübler.

J. Mariscal - OCTOBER ANTHEM The Chilean aesthetic uprising

The Chilean uprising of October 2019 gives visibility to a shared sense of inequality, injustice, and lack of dignity between its citizens. After years of silence, and without identification in the political parties, they found a way to express their political concerns in the aesthetics of this social movement. This film highlight the sonority of the movement, how this collective singing—as an anthem—was able to convene and identify with a wide range of Chilean citizens. The sonority is a calling, also a responding, and a political statement where—indeed—the political concerns of the citizens can be represented. The audiovisual footage of this film was collected from Chilean social media accounts (Instagram, WhatsApp) along the social movement of October 2019.

Xuchun Wang - On the Road, a mini-ethnography on food delivery

In Shanghai, the food delivery man always comes in a rush, and left in three seconds after he delivered the food, all we see is the back view he left behind. This film aims to show what they are doing out of people’s sight.

Anastasia Buianova - MORE THAN A WOMAN the invisible female power in the visible men's world

Directed by Anastasia Buianova
Supervisor Sanderien Verstappen
Girl Nisan Ökten; Mother Lerna Ökten; Female Voice Lana Balorda; Male Voice Mark Whitehead
Interviewer & Sounds Lucca Hellriegel
Soundtracks Bee Gees - More than a woman, Wind Rose - Mine mine mine, Hans Zimmer - On stranger tides

Yaw Boateng - TRANSFERENCE OF VISIBILITY

Visibility has a nature and various qualities. A reason why people seek it is that it brings about a level of recognition. This is a short film to demonstration of one of the various natures of visibility in relation to recognition.

Models: Students of “Ethnographic Media Practices II: The Politics of (In)visibility”
Audio: ChilledCow–Ocean Waves

Halima Haque - FRAMING EFFECT

Framing of a ‘Wonderland’ where some dreams of Capitalism come true at a price of priceless Human lives…

Juan David Cañas Velasco - The (In)visible Colombia, Education for Indigenous communities

While the Colombian Government is striving to develop education in the country by using westerns educational models, it is rendering invisible and non-important the indigenous communities within Colombia, leaving them out of the social gaze.

Tianpu Cao - THE BUBBLE MAKER

My film is a story happens in a bubble tea shop. The capitalist comes up an idea of open a ‘hand-made bubble’ tea shop. Instead of running a regular bubble tea shop in which the bubbles can just be made with productive machine, he hires a specific person — ‘the bubble maker ‘, to stand in front the truck, making the bubbles by worker’s own hands to attract customers and to sell bubble tea in way higher price, and this conception ‘hand-made bubble tea’ is really deceptive to customers. The argument that I am trying to convey, is to make a reflection on the invisible surplus value, and the inequality issues about cheap labour force among developing countries.

Mengwen Zhai - When the high heeled shoe met the three-inch gold lotus

A feet was broken for several times in order to wear the exquisitely embroidered shoe and become the “three-inch gold lotus”. The feet in high heels was, in fact, thoroughly crushed out of shape since the toe of the shoes is too small and the heel is too high, but she was still so proud of her beauty.
Why women in ancient China chose such a brutal torture, suffering not only bone-breaking pain but also the risk of infection. Why are high heels so popular among women in modern society, although they are very uncomfortable even causing foot bones distorted. For beauty? For being seen as beautiful, precisely, by men.
Then what would happen when they met each other ? They became real good sisters. Why? Because their aesthetic of their bodies were both entirely from the male gaze whether in ancient China or in modern society.