SATURDAY
26/09/25
49:59 min
SICKHOUSE
Oldenzaalstestraat 128
7514 DS Enschede
9€ / 7€
Open your third eye and step into a world of wonder(s).
Leave behind your suspicions of (un)believability and engage with higher levels of consciousness. Six short films that will transport your mind to unknown portals and let you reconnect with nature.
STARRING
0.0D (Diopter Zero) canvaswan
Third times the charm Renee Maria Hendrika Riebeek
Chasing Whales La Fille Renne
And Then There Was Silence Dante Rustav
The Garden sees the fire Kiera Faber
Sympathetic Fluid Matthew Pagoaga
0.0D (DIOPTER ZERO)
canvaswan
Inspired by childhood vision tests and contemporary digital aesthetics, Diopter Zero transforms the shared experience of looking into an autorefractor into a CGI meditation on calibration, perception, and memory. The film explores how technology, internet imagery, and visual culture shape the way we see and imagine.
THIRD TIME’S THE CHARM
Renee Maria Hendrika Riebeek
After being struck by lightning not once, but three times, Renee’s grandfather dies. Told in a dry, pseudo-scientific tone and constructed entirely from archival material, the film presents this unlikely story with forensic precision.
CHASING WHALES
La Fille Renne
Chasing Whales is an experimental documentary following filmmaker La Fille Renne across Northern Europe, tracing encounters with cetaceans, whaling histories, and marine landscapes. Through these journeys, the film reflects on humanity’s changing relationship with whales, memory, and the future of our shared ecosystems.
AND THEN THERE WAS SILENCE
Dante Rustav
Experimental animated short exploring water as a carrier of memory and sound as a sign of life. Through repetition, fragmentation, and rhythmic shifts, the film builds an audiovisual intensity that gradually collapses into silence. When sound disappears, water vanishes as well — leaving absence as the final state.
THE GARDEN SEES FIRE
Kiera Faber
A mystical tale of cloaked identities, systemic traumas, and insatiable consumption: The ecology burns, reclaiming its environs.
SYMPATHETIC FLUID
Matthew Pagoaga
Using layered chroma-key visualizations with original and stock footage, Sympathetic Fluids presents a shadow-play narrative exploring wireless connection, snail slime, and embodiment. Accompanied by dream-pop and swirling ink intertitles, the film immerses audiences in a lush world of colored goo and uncanny silhouettes, tracing humanity’s and gastropods’ intertwined pasts, presents, and speculative futures.
