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OFF SCREEN X STUDIO ART OFFICE On Wednesday, May 15, Off Screen and Studio Art Office present a selection of short films and art videos at WORM made with a (partial) contribution from CBK Rotterdam and enter into conversation with Luca Tichelman (Off Screen) and Petra Laaper (Studio Art Office). The program is in English.


The Spectacular: How small can the all-encompassing absence be?, Marco Douma & Roel Meelkop, 2024, 10 min
Does mass fill the image in this film with meaning? Or is it a vacuum that obliterates the image and transforms the film? Rotterdam-based visual artist Marco Douma creates digitally processed images from charcoal drawings, creating what he calls an "indefinable space." Thus, with slowed-down abstract music by co-director Roel Meelkop. The Spectacular offers a reflection on the coincidence of time and space.


Riflesso sull’Arco – the movie, Olphaert den Otter, 2024, work in progress, 10 min
At the invitation of composer Richard Rijnvos, Den Otter is working on an animated film to the musical piece of the same name . Given the dynamic nature of the piece, he is expanding his film experience in terms of movement and layering and changing his analog work process; How can layering be both drawn, painted or digitally produced and integrated and timed?


Red Dust, Katja Verheul, 2024, 17 minA couple of times a year, the sky turns red in France. Sand dust from the Sahara is passed through a difference in air pressure from North Africa to Southern Europe. This dust, a time capsule containing cesium-137 from the French nuclear tests in Algeria, covers everything. The film exposes the impact of a war that was never fought. A French veteran and archeology students share and speculate on what will be remembered and what will be hidden under the sand forever.


A Cactus, A Ladder and a Boot, Salvador Miranda, 2023, 10 minThis short film accompanies three young Mexican-American women as they play a game of “Heads Up” in the shadow of the border wall. Using cards from the Mexican game “Lotería”, they take turns guessing the card placed on their forehead. Playing with Mexican stereotypes and expressions, these cards take on a more symbolic meaning juxtaposed with images of the border wall on a separate screen. The work speaks to the crossroads of mixed identity and the new iconography of the borderlands.


Trees of Rotterdam, Alice Ladenburg & Ollie Palmer, 2024, 12 minThe film portrays the greenest inhabitants of the city of Rotterdam. In a single, virtual shot we glide through the city, while listening to stories about its green giants – that incidentally outnumber the people. Initially the artificiality of the imagery seems to contrast with the nature we see, though eventually, the two intertwine like stems – the city embraces the trees and the trees embrace the city.