COMPETITION 3

Claudia Larcher feeds 350 photos of herself to an artificial intelligence (a GAN, or Generative Adversarial Network) to generate a selfportrait that morphs, distorts, deforms. An experimental reflection on the self in a constant state of becoming, doing and undoing itself, still never enough to be completely tangible.

In a world where appearance is everything, a young woman puts on a second skin in order to engage in social life. Sealed up tight, her skin becomes a costume and an armour – but suddenly the space between the real and the performed begins to dissolve.

A crush gone mouldy...

Amidst intrusive and long lost memories, a woman hears a disconcerting call from the depths of her being. A cryptic cry for help that becomes clearer and clearer, guiding her to the original wound, to her inner child, to whom she will give comfort to finally become her own protector.

Tension simmers in a strange space called home.

On a hot August afternoon, a family gathers at the table to remember the life of uncle Botão, which was shaped by dictatorship, Portugal’s colonial war in Angola, emigration, and working as a garbage man. The individual story unfolds and ultimately tells the history of a nation whose collective memories are so often overlooked.

A lobster, a cat and a deer. Dangerous rebels. A human, sometimes here and sometimes there. He is looking for connection. He meets the deer. He meets the cat. Mutual rejection. Big disappointment. Our human follows the way of the sun to reach the animals through sharing an apple.

A woman with extreme anxiety is devoured by four major preoccupations – the man she met by chance on a train, her dying father, her daughter’s safety and the murder she dreams she has committed.