Opening 18.3.25 20:00
For the third time, the city of Bremen will be the venue for international, curated video art. The 3rd Hochkantfilmfest will show artistic works from various disciplines on the theme of "curiosity" from March 19 to 23, 2025. The works will be presented in a shop window situation in the UMZU, where the works are visible from outside around the clock.
With 490 submissions from almost 80 countries, the festival is once again sending a strong signal for the growing importance of the portrait format in film art and at the same time positioning itself resolutely against the shift to the right in society.
The works were selected from eighteen artistic positions, the youngest of which is just 10 years old.
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Asghar Besharati, IRNÂ
Painter of Fish
A boy who shows us with a painting that overfishing causes destruction
Gregory Grosjean, BEÂ
Mountain of disbelief
Through a dreamlike journey through miniature landscapes, Mountain of Disbelief gives birth to a mysterious world where the transformation of evanescent matter takes the place of words.
Guillermo Rojo Diez, ESÂ
Traces in the Air
It is a poetic and evocative work that connects very well with the idea of something intangible that remains floating, like curiosity or the trace of what is no longer there. It has a mysterious touch that invites the viewer to reflect.
Inaz Javan & Vajihe Keshavarzi, IRNÂ
life dont have a shadow
life dont have a shadow becuse its dead...!
Kang Le, TWN
A thousand kisses deep
A thousand kisses deep, there lies nothing.
We see vast amounts of imagery on social media every day. Expressions of creativity on the surface, they are in fact imitations and endless replications.
In this piece, I erase faces as much as possible and imitate the scrolling mechanism on TikTok, highlighting the homogeneity of imagery in the era of social media through the repetition, deconstruction, and regeneration of single images and actions.
“A Thousand Kisses Deep” presents imagery created from rules, aesthetics, and value systems, which are the neglected essence of things - the true nature of our information age. In this respect, “A Thousand Kisses Deep” embodies true realism.
Luigi Ricca, IT
Gears, the Frog and the Snake
Mina Moeinfard, IRNÂ
Reed me a poem
Life is a short love story
Mohamed Ali Al Zubide, IRQÂ
The Accismus
Cinema, as I see it, is not just a means of telling stories, but a window that we open to the human spirit, and to the aesthetics hidden in everyday details that we pass without attention.
Nayden Todorov Nikolov, BGRÂ
FURROW
In a world carved by deep furrows of the past, a boy struggles to cross the invisible boundaries that separate him from himself. "Furrow" is a visually poetic journey through memory, trauma, and transformation, where reality and dreams merge into one.
Nilram Ranjbar, IRNÂ
Cat & Fish
A goldfish in a small container goes to a bigger pond with the help of a cat.
Ramin Parvin, IRNÂ
The Day After
In a sepia-toned world, a bored woman finds herself drifting into a dream.
Rita Casdia, ITÂ
End
End does not want to be the vision of a world that is coming to the end of its existence, but rather the rediscovered will of the human being to unite totally with the majestic and impetuous nature.
Anna GroĂź, GER
Open
The animation highlights aspects of opening up and the resulting getting to know each other. It remains open whether the two figures are a mirrored individual or different people. The work invites introspection and a look behind the facade of the other person.
Elena Wiener, GER
Ausblick
An endless look into the future. Who isn't curious and wants to know what will happen tomorrow? Where is our politics heading? When will I find my true love? When and where will I die? Unfortunately, there is only a concrete answer to this when it actually happens. Ausblick is an endless attempt to see something about your own future in a crystal ball - only to find that it is impossible to break this endless loop.
Gábor Ulrich., HU
Self
This work is based on a piece from my sculpture series SELF. It is a self-reflective, pseudo self-portrait in which I examine the constantly shifting narrative of fluid identity and the relationship between the real and ideal self.
Andras Szurdi, BEÂ
Eggsy
A simple egg cracks open, only to reveal a new egg. The cycle repeats endlessly in a loop. Each break is a discovery, yet nothing is fully revealed. Curiosity is infinite. Every answer leads to new questions, keeping us searching, wondering, and exploring. The egg is not just an object; it is the process of knowing, never complete, always unfolding.
#FFFF00, TWN
❤️
❤️ shows a transition between two images of four-leaf clovers, both retouched from the same BY-SA 2.0 image of three-leaf clovers by V. Epiney. The work evokes a sense of strangeness through “ordinary surreal” view, implying the ambiguity of the image world. Its appropriation form celebrates mutation, a characteristic of both four-leaf clover and today’s self-proliferating images from meme to generative artificial intelligence, and reaffirms their shared identity of openness/flexibility: the BY-SA 2.0 license allows free adaptation but requests to share likewise in the future.
Jule Körperich, GER
Fotorevolte
Fotorevolte tells of the moment when the world's available storage capacity is exhausted an all digitally stored photographs and films come to life. When finally the Internet overflows, the world sinks into a mishmash of pixels. The animated film combines around 1000 drawings, photos, graphics and videos.
Jury of 2025
Edit Molnár
director Edith-Russ-Haus for media art, Oldenburg
Donghee Nam
artist, Frankfurt
Maman Salissou Oumarou
documentary filmmaker and author, Wuppertal
Rebekka Kronsteiner
artist and artistic director Galerie Mitte, Bremen