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Shorts: Distant Voices

The soft murmur of distant voices. The hauntological and oblique, our personal lost utopias, memories we just can’t shake.


Seven films that chart our memories, realities, and objects of nostalgia: The last remaining Mimic in England, impersonating those we have lost; Bubba, a virtual browser-dog snuffed out with new programming; a student who finds himself waking in the strangest of places; a mythical Mayan figure that brings death and despair; a shadow puppeteer haunted by memories of the Khmer Rouge; a man walking through island streets, searching for ghosts; a simple game of trading cards, taking place in the space between then and now. DISTANT VOICES investigates the hauntological, those lost things we can never get back.


Total Running Time: 94 min


Content Warning: Loud sounds, death, distressing scenes

Screens

Mimic

Mimic

Directed by Christopher Bonwell

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Should Virtual Petz Die?

Should Virtual Petz Die?

Directed by Carlo Galbiati

Country: Italy

Language: English

Random Awakenings of Tae-woo

Random Awakenings of Tae-woo

Directed by Zhiquan Liu

Country: South Korea

Language: Korean

Someday the Night Will Come

Someday the Night Will Come

Directed by Chica Barbosa

Country: Mexico

Language: Spanish

Interview With A Hero

Interview With A Hero

Directed by Andy 'Celeste' Diep

Country: Australia

Language: Central khmer, English

Ramón Who Speaks to Ghosts

Ramón Who Speaks to Ghosts

Directed by Shervin Kermani

Country: Canada, Mexico, Spain

Language: Spanish

Trading Cards

Trading Cards

Directed by Radheya Jang

Country: Australia

Language: English