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Festival Program 2026Retrospective 2: Call Me An Ambulance: The Beauty of Chaos

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Retrospective 2: Call Me An Ambulance: The Beauty of Chaos

Curated by Nastaran Tajeri-Foumani

What happens when the body refuses to fulfil its designated function? This selection of films explores the blurred boundaries between humans, animals, and vegetables. Whether through a foley artist’s phantom limb, a panda’s political voice, or the erotic life of a carrot, these works celebrate the plasticity of identity. Moving between surreal animation and public performance, the films in this program ask: how do we transform our skins to survive? Here, the body is not a fixed reality, but a shifting landscape of desire and resistance. From defiant drag in a coal-stricken landscape to the corporate gatekeeping of a theme park, these seven films contemplate the possibilities of images and textures that continually reshape themselves to transform our perception.

Sinema Transtopia

21.05.2026 – 20:30

Retrospective Shorts

Badlands (Zle ziemie)

Is it Australian or Polish?

Artistic or shallow?

Brilliantly satirical or insane?

The answer to all these questions is

YES

Except that the film is Australian and not Polish, despite the writer’s and director’s Polish ancestry.

 

Director: David Blumenstein
Writer: Adam Wajnberg
Country: Australia, 2005
Language: English
Subtitle: English
Duration: 0:42 min

Retrospective Shorts

The Dark, Krystle

Sinema Transtopia

21.05.2026 – 20:30

The cabin is on fire! Krystle can’t stop crying, Alexis won’t stop drinking, and the fabric of existence hangs in the balance, again and again and again.

Director: Michael Robinson
Country: United States, 2013
Language: English
Duration: 9 min

Retrospective Feature

Terror Nullius

Sinema Transtopia

21.05.2026 – 20:30

FLAMING EARS is a pop sci-fi lesbian, fantasy feature set in the year 2700 in the fictive, burnt- out city of Asche. It follows the tangled lives of three woman: Spy, a comic book artist; Volly, a performance artist and sexed-up pyromaniac; and Nun, an amoral alien with a predilection for reptiles. It´s a story of love and revenge, and an anti-romantic plea for love in its many forms. It´s also a story laced with sex, violence and a pulsating soundtrack, a cyberdyke movie, stimulating both the body and the brain. (Elke Schüttelkopf)

Director: Soda Jerk
Writer: Soda Jerk
Country: Australia, 2018
Language: English
Duration: 54 min

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