Daniel Schmidt
2021
La isla está encantada con ustedes
Alexander Carver, Daniel Schmidt
Raul de Nieves, Lydela Leonor
This lyrical work adapted from a two-channel installation traces parallel histories of colonial power dynamics in Puerto Rico, the pillaging of the land and people in the 16th century, and a shift toward concerns about public health in the 19th century, all refracted through the lens of contemporary neurosis and erotic comedy.
The Island Is Enchanted with You
Palácios de Pena
Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel Schmidt
Alcina Abrantes, Ana Rita Franco
Haunted by their own directionless lives, two pre-adolescent girls reunite while visiting their ailing grandmother. In the midst of her fantasies of a medieval past - one consumed by fear and desire - the two girls are transformed and confront a legacy of oppression.
Palaces of Pity
The Unity of All Things
Alexander Carver, Daniel Schmidt
Celia Au, Andrea Chen
The adolescent sons of an expatriated Chinese physicist visit her in the United States, while she and her colleagues pursue the development of a massive particle collider with which to understand the origin of the Universe. A queer Science Fiction, that engages the utopian impulses of the genre, not through the imagining of another world, but through the rendering of this world as Other. All subjects are treated as alien, or as radical others, who search for, or advance different ideological, psychological, or sexual ideals of belonging. Subjects oscillate between the contemplation of past societal traumas and idealizations of futurity that refuse to synthesize or resolve, but instead reveal a troubling satire of the present.
The Unity of All Things
Hör Zu
Benjamin Fürst
Benjamin Fürst, Jonathan Wenger
Fynn is waiting for the train to meet up with his girlfriend Lara, when he bumps into his old friend from school Tom. They haven't spoken in a while and chat about the past. But before Fynn even notices, the chat turns into something way more serious...
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