2018 Macon Film Festival

BEAT

Total Run Time: 5:14
Director: Tim Seger
Country of Origin: Deutschland
Ratings: None
Synopsis: When Henry falls asleep at his working place in front of his typewriter he finds himself in a world he does not comprehend. At the border of society between rubbish and junk everything seems upside down. What are the weird shapes that are behind him? And how will he find out of this chaotic place?


CHIMERA

Total Run Time: 3:46
Director: Iikkamatti Hauru
Country of Origin: United States
Ratings: None
Synopsis: Chimera refers to a whole composed of seemingly contradictory parts, a wildly imaginative and implausible entity. With this word as a starting point, the viewer is presented with a vision of a city of the future, where the line between reality and illusion is being shattered into a precariously fragmented mirage.


STARMAKER

Total Run Time: 28:02
Director: Michael Gandham & Chris Batstone
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Ratings: None
Synopsis: One moment a man looks curiously into the heavens, the next he has discovered the ability to traverse time and space, meld with other sentient consciousnesses and eventually speak as one, singular universal mind. But what will this universal mind discover when it finally meets its' creator?
Our retelling of seminal science fiction novel ‘Star Maker’ (Olaf Stapledon 1937)  fuses a diversity of visual styles and features a specially composed score by Barry Hyde, (The Futureheads).  


HYBRIS

Total Run Time: 10:00
Director: Carmen Gil Vrolijk
Country of Origin: Colombia
Ratings: None
Synopsis: Hybris is an exploration of a universe of light and sound that produces ephemeral beings that appear and disappear changing our world.


EGO I BLURRED

Total Run Time: 5:06
Director: Ralph Heinsohn & Kiasmos
Country of Origin: Germany
Ratings: None
Synopsis: “ego | blurred” is an audio-visual artwork on the subject of identity – configured as a UFO made up of three-dimensional typography. The project is a collaboration between the Icelandic music project KIASMOS and Fulldome filmmaker Ralph Heinsohn.


NACHTMAHR

Total Run Time: 7:40
Director: Elia Hüneburg
Country of Origin: Germany
Ratings: None
Synopsis: An old man can not sleep. In between of weird dreams and old memories he awakes, confused and haunted by some thing he can not see. His cat however sees the nachtmahr creeping in the nightly shadows and is for itself out for a hunt.