Some shorts I could find online that played Locarno in 2019
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Carne (Camila Kater)
I figured watching an animated short unsubtitled would be fine, turns out it’s wall-to-wall narration in Portuguese. From what I can follow, five women’s stories about their bodies, chronologically through the life cycle, each in different animation styles (stop-mo, watercolor, flash, clay, Breer).
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In Vitro (Lind & Sansour)
Dry, serious sci-fi displayed in wide split-screen. Older woman in hospital bed is confronted by younger clone who questions her implanted memories and her purpose in the purgatorial present-day while the survivors of a global plague are kept indoors and underground.
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Volcano: What Does a Lake Dream? (Diana Vidrascu)
A movie about islands and earthquakes with distorted colors and cool sound design is for sure gonna remind me of Rock Bottom Riser. Gets caught up a little too hard in video effects wilderness but still my favorite of this bunch.
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Our Territory (Mathieu Volpe)
Italian narrator (speaking French) is weird and sad about encountering a neighborhood of poor African immigrants.
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White Afro (Akosua Adoma Owusu)
Adapted from a salon worker interview and a promotional film about giving white people afros, interspersed with Toni Morrison quotes, the picture highly distressed with film junk.
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Swinguerra (Benjamin de Burca & Barbara Wagner)
Ninety percent of this is sexy Brazilians dancing, what is not to love?