Usurp Zone5 Film Festival

'How She Sees What She Sees' – Zachary Finkelstein | 3:00 | Canada
Shot on hi-con reversal 16mm, made and edited completely in-camera and hand processed. How She Sees What She Sees is an exercise in perception based on exploring the visual limitations of the filmaker’s infant daughter’s visual experience.

Taklif – Maryam Tafakory | 10:00 | Britain
An abstract yet lyrical story of religion as forced into a girl’s life, seen from the innocent perspective of the child. It conveys the violence of early marriage and rites of passage, as faced by pre-pubescent girls in an Islamic context.

Against My Better Judgement – atthias Kispert | 3:35 | Britain
Made from the unedited promotional material of a company specialising in product placement and extracts from a documentary in which a well-known film director is relating his experience of filming in a hostile natural environment, the viewer is invited to re-examine their own position in relation to the pervasive visual paradigms shown on screen.

This Is Britain – Pablo Saura | 3:44 | Britain
An abstract yet lyrical story of religion as forced into a girl’s life, seen from the innocent perspective of the child. It conveys the violence of early marriage and rites of passage, as faced by pre-pubescent girls in an Islamic context.

The King's Hand –Sedi Ghadiri | 10:00 | Iran, Britain
A non-conventional film that aims to reflect the political perspective of the Iranian leftists, who supported a Mullah as an alternative to replace the monarchy and ended up in exile when the new system turned into yet another dictatorship. The poetic scenes render the notion of powerlessness and absurdity of human behavior.

The Stream 4 – Hiroya Sakurai | 5:35 | Japan
A musical using the sound and movement of flowing water. Bubbles, waterweeds, fish and floaters are the melancholic performers. A waterproof camera was placed at the bottom of a river with the lens looking upwards to the sky.

FU377 – Neelu Bhuman | 5:00 | Britain, United States, India
While the Indian Supreme Court tries to outlaw homosexuality, an adorable mother has her knowledge of ‘gay sex’ in mint condition, wheeling out a tidbit or two for her heartbroken queer daughter in an effort to cheer her up.

I was five when I became a woman – Maryam Tafakory | 5:00 | Britain
An emotional tapestry that invites you to briefly share the life long torment of genital mutilation still forced upon many young girls around the world..

Cape Mongo VHS – Francois Knoetze | 5:00 | South Africa
Characters are followed as they journey through the city of Cape Town. Each ‘Mongo’ character is made from the city’s discarded waste – mythical ‘trash creatures’ which have emerged from the growing dumps of consumer culture. The creatures revisit the spaces of their imagined pasts – the locations associated with their material existence and the constitution of their social relations – as if walking against the consumer-driven currents of city.

Free movements – Mikhail Basov | 5:52 | Russia
Elm seeds, that cover the streets in the spring, perform their dance bending to the will of wind and randomness. But one seed does not want to be a guest at this ball and dances against all the physical laws.

Why There Are All Those Signs In Galleries Warning You Not To Touch The Artwork – Molly Brown | 0:21 | Britain
Have you ever wondered why there are all those signs in galleries warning you not to touch the artwork? This is why.