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Albania

A story about the symbiotic relationship between Tirana and its Grand Park told from the point of a dweller. As the city transforms into a bustling metropolis, the pace of change can be overwhelming for some. Now that Tirana has become one of Europe's busiest metropolises it has overwhelmed some, as the rate of change is hard to keep up with. Amidst the towering skyscrapers and rapidly growing structures, the Grand Park serves as a sanctuary of peace and serenity, providing a much-needed escape for the people of Albania. In this film, the park serves as a metaphor for Tirana, symbolising the link between the towering Dajti mountains and the city's new urban landscape. The park now serves as a key protagonist in the Tirana 2030 Design Plan, acting as a beacon for preserving the city's green spaces and preventing urban sprawl.

Albania

The beginning of the Albanian feminist movement in the early XX century was relatively late compared to other western developed countries. The name of the movie refers to the first society of women, called “Morning Star”, was founded in January 1909, by the Sevasti and Parashqevi Qiriazi. This short movie refers to the spatial narrations, messages in public spaces which often unconsciously and imperceptibly preserve patriarchal patterns. In Tirana, a city where there is relatively more freedom and openness to individuality, compared to the towns and villages of Albania, statues of male heroes dominate anyway. The only female statue that has been inaugurated in 2022, is the statue of Queen Geraldine, as wife of King Zogu. The role of women in history, their importance for the development of the country and it's culture must be redefined and make visible in the public space. The project refers to urban anthropology, but also to the relations of power shaped in the landscape. We admire (in ALbania) the beautiful views, the mountains, forgetting about the situation of women there, forgetting that in small towns, in and behind mountain villages in Albania, there are still many women whose rights to decide about themselves are not respected. And, in terms of land, typical and common here, they cannot inherit a family's land inheritance.

Albania

This short orangerie depicts the seasonal growth of Albanian citruses and the warm-hearted fruit sellers hidden behind the even faster growing townscape of Tirana, who supply the capital with short food supply chain Vitamine C from the region.

Austria

Mother Arkah A Filmic Allegory on the Rise and Fall of Ideologies ‘Mother Arkah’ is an 18-minute animated short film exploring a speculative climate-apocalypse scenario and the hypothesis of the posthumanist ideology ‘Bio-Technoism’. The project investigates concepts on prohibiting the ‘religion of growth’, future power structures shaped within the ‘Posthuman Convergence’, AI-driven symbiogenetic evolution and autopoietic architectures. The film serves as an allegory on mechanisms behind political belief systems, while posing questions about how deep the ‘urge for innovation’ is rooted within us humans and therefore how much humanness our planet can take. The virtual film production is executed in Unreal Engine 5. Media: Film, Sculpture, Publication — Info: for this competition I'm submitting the 1-Minute version to the whole film.

Denmark

Lynetteholm is an artificial island off the coast of copenhagen planned to be finished in 50 years. The project is yet another example of anthropocentric architectural expansion. I expanded it upon the lens of ecofeminism, by putting into question this human urge to colonize the landscape and species living in it. I used essay film as the medium; sometimes footage from Copenhagen zoo, symbolizing the colonial history and human supremacy, blends in with actual footage from the construction site. As the voice-over, I asked a friend of mine, to answer a question: "what would you put on an island if you had an island"?

Albania

The booming, architecturally and socially chaotic city of Tirana, Albania, as seen through the eyes of the many stray dogs who, thanks to an ear tags (they are vaccinated and sterilized) live in the streets of downtown, in harmony with the people and their surroundings.