Split Film Festival – Festival of New Film, happening in September, is open to all new, innovative, personal, experimental, radical, subversive etc. work (film, video, new media) of all genres and lengths, preferably from outside the mainstream, whether it was made on shoe string budget, or is a studio release.
Torino, starting on late November, selected the film for the Waves section, where the Torino Film Festival’s tradition of research and renewal is pushed to the limit, into territories that are at the outer edge of genres, languages, standards and lengths. Films by directors like Stephen Dwoskin, Ken Jacobs, Tonino De Bernardi, Gianikian & Ricci Lucchi, Béla Tarr, Raul Ruiz, Raya Martin, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Albert Serra, Kohei Oguri are included in that section.
VOODOO, with Albâno Jerónimo and Isabel Abreu, is based on the following statement: All sympathetic magic is based upon two principles: the first called the Law of Similarity says that “likes produce likes,” or that an effect resembles its cause; the second, called the law of contagion or contact says that all things having been in contact with each other continue to react upon one and another at a distance even after they have been severed or disconnected. A fearful man meets a disquiet woman. Do you believe in magic?