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實驗電影也好，錄像藝術也好，實驗紀錄片也好，在這個單元裡，類型與分類都不再重要。這些無法定義的短片，以各自迥異的創作手法，亦或是不得不的表現方式，拆卸下電影構成的元件，進行分析和強化，再現那不可再現的，想像那不可想像的，使不可能的化為可能，逼露出「真實」的模樣。

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【第十屆台灣國際紀錄片影展】比紀錄片還陌生預告 Stranger than Documentary Trailer

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Short Film About Life

If ‘all the world’s a stage’, then the scenes recorded by an unmoving camera on an ordinary football field are its pure essence. Over the course of just two minutes, this cinematic miniature unfolds a story filled with concentration, hope, disappointment, friendship and the collegiality of sport. A football microcosm.

The Williamsburg Houses

This film gazes into the architecture and lives of the occupants of one of the most ambitious public housing projects ever built in the US. Exploring the remains of a utopian design in contemporary context, we are immersed in the life of a building and a community.

The Predicate and the Poppy

In a primary school in a tough, outlying area of Paris, where teachers burn out steadily, five young and relatively inexperienced teachers made a commitment to stay. Five years later, they describe their lives in this school and what they dream of building.

Mother Is God

Mother Is God is a fragmented and personal film on different visions of reality. It is built on conversations between me (the director) and God (my psychotic mum), where we encounter her flower language, meet the devil’s birds, and learn how to marry the wind.

The Revolution Hunter

It all started with a picture taken in 1974 in Lisbon, just after the Portuguese Revolution. She tries to enter in that picture as if she could enter into a time she didn't belong and finally understands what it means to fight for a country.

Short Film About Life

Over the course of just two minutes, this cinematic miniature unfolds a story filled with concentration, hope, disappointment, friendship, and the collegiality of sport. A football microcosm.

The Best Way

No pictures, only font. No protagonists, only Steffi, a computer voice. Not the fate of an individual, but a portrait of a group. The film shows the everyday life of blind people, their clash with sighted people and small mean things on both sides.

Dragooned

A man tries to renew links with his vital forces and lost faith through the incantation of a parallel heroic tale. At the heart of the aesthetic of archival films, the director expresses the possibility of a vertiginous return of the WWII into the present.

BÄR

My grandpa's past was always very present. It would break through in something he'd say or do, but he'd never talk about it. Only now, by revisiting his life and personality, as I knew him, do I feel the weight of his inheritance.

The Rate's Cut

In 1991, Rate, a man from Orihuela buys a camera for the first time and starts recording his surroundings. For three months, he relentlessly looks for a real story that hasn't been filmed before. Rate will find out about life's drama through his ‘wild eye’.

Stranger than Documentary

Whether it is experimental film, video installation or experimental documentary, the distinction among film genres or categories ceases to matter in this programme section. Each with a different creative approach or a demanded way of expression, these indefinable short films break down the elements that make up a film for further analysis and reinforcement in order to reproduce the irreproducible, imagine the unimaginable, make possible the impossible, and reveal the look of reality.