"Fragmented Seeds and Echos"
"Echoes of a future reflect a complex past in a dystopian landscape where nature coexists with machines, creating an environmental poem in both form and production."
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Q&A with filmmaker Itandehui Jansen
Discussant: Alexander Fattal, Professor Communication Department
11/16/2024 1:00 PM
Suraj Israni Cinematic Center - Mosaic Room 113
"Minutes"
Directed by: Matthew Wolkow
"It's a bird in the air, a bird that lands (...)
The deep mystery, the promise of life (...)
It's nothing at all."
- Jobim/Moustaki -
Note of intent:
At once simple, profound and light-hearted, this film is a play on words; a deliberative game and puzzle.
Experimental Short | 5 min | 2023
Audio language: English
Subtitles language: English
Matthew Wolkow
Filmmaker
Driven by a curiosity for knowledge, Matthew Wolkow creates a cinema revealing the persons he meets and the stories that come along. Situated between essay and experimentation, rubbing the real, the imaginary, speech, words, music and sensorialities, his work benefits from this hybridity where form is approached as a resolution. In October 2021, the Cinémathèque québécoise screened his first retrospective.
"ITU NINU"
Directed by: Itandehui Jansen
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In the not-so-distant future of 2084, Ángel finds himself trapped as a climate migrant in an undisclosed city, where surveillance reigns supreme. Amidst a bleak and oppressive existence, Ángel makes a living by cultivating plants, preserving the fading wisdom of seeds. Within this desolate landscape he crosses paths with Sofia, another climate migrant toiling away at a recycling facility. Fate intertwines their lives when a chance encounter reveals an unexpected connection: a shared language. Fueling Ángel’s longing for human connection and a glimmer of hope, he reaches out to Sofia. Aware of the omnipresent digital monitoring, Ángel decides to communicate with her through the timeless medium of pen and paper, fostering an intimate, clandestine bond. As their secret correspondence unfolds, a friendship grows between Ángel and Sofia as does their desire for liberation from excessive control.
Fiction Sci-Fi | 72 min | 2023
Audio language: Mixtec and English
Subtitles language: English
Itandehui Jansen
Filmmaker
Itandehui Jansen was born in Oaxaca, Mexico and studied film directing at the Netherlands Film Academy in Amsterdam. She participated in different international training programs, such as the BERLINALE TALENTS, The BINGER FILM LAB, and the TORINO FILM LAB.
Her films have screened at international festivals such as the IDFA (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam), FICM (Morelia International Film Festival), Washington D.C. Shorts, ZINEBI, the London Short Film Festival, and SLAMDANCE.
Her films have received several international awards and she was nominated for the Mexican Film Critics Award Diosa de Plata. Her feature drama film In Times of Rain won the Award for Best Emerging Feature Film at the Oaxaca Film Fest.
At present she is Associate Professor of Film at Screen Academy Scotland, Edinburgh Napier University.
