Electric Shorts (Filmfest Aachen 2025)

In the organizer's words:

This screening is part of Filmfest Aachen 2025

Shorts program 1: ELECTRIC SHORTS

Short films are wonderfully weird creatures. Less limited by narrative convention, ambitious budgets and distribution circuits, they can truly run wild. Beyond any rulebook of filmmaking, they dap into the unconscious, into alienation, abject and dreamlike trips that bend the mind beyond what we are used to seeing. So much, they electrify us. Watching a short film is like developing a micro-obsession. Like catching a spark. It's like having a brief encounter that lingers with you for days. Their fabric is woven from digital texture(Pacific Vein) and old relics(Simulated Scenery Study), they move through computer generated interspaces with ease(Their Eyes) and pulsate in our eyes and ears(ESP). Yet what lurks beneath the visual and auditive experience of these shorts is our distorted reality - uncanny and estranged, we recognize it.

Short films are wonderfully strange creatures. Not bound by narrative structures, ambitious budgets and distribution channels, they can be completely freewheeling. Beyond all conventions of filmmaking, they feel their way into the unconscious, into alienation, into the abject, into dreamlike trips that go far beyond what we are used to seeing. That's why they electrify us. Watching a short film is like developing a micro-obsession. Like a spark that ignites. Like a fleeting encounter that lasts for days. They are woven from digital texture(Pacific Vein) and old relics(Simulated Scenery Study); they glide with ease through computer-generated interstices(Their Eyes) and pulsate in our eyes and ears(ESP). But what always lurks beneath the surface of the audiovisual experience is our distorted reality, uncanny and alienated, we recognize it.

Films in the program / Filme im Programm:

Program duration: ~70 minutes

All films are shown in the original version with english subtitles

Simulated Scenery Study - Land of Smoke
Japan, 2024, 6 min, Keitaro Oshima, no dialog

Yummy
Estonia, 2024, 9 min, Martinus Klement, no dialog

Their Eyes
France, 2025, 23 min, Nicolas Gourault, English, Spanish

Pacific Vein
Germany, 2024, 12 min, Ulu Braun, no dialogue

ESP
2024, USA, 3 min, Laura Kraning, no dialogue

A Kind Of Testament
2023, France, 18 min, Stephen Vuillemin, English

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