EX-Now 5 International Competition

L'image Fantôme / The Ghost Image Emmanuel Piton | France | 2025 | 20min In the house of my childhood, I search for traces of an apparition that still haunts my memory. Leaving Light Viktoria Schmid | Austria | 2026 | 3min In an abandoned studio within the Sonnenhaus, an early research center for renewable energy, Leaving Light traces the lingering presence of light, time, and memory. Using successive multiple exposures filtered through different colors directly in the camera, Viktoria Schmid layers fleeting moments into a single shimmering image where past and present coexist. Old Slab LI San-Kit | Hong Kong | 2025 | 43min 17sec Old Slab proposes an alternative approach to document space. The film chronicles a dwelling of thirty years in Fu Shan Estate, a public housing estate in Hong Kong. The residential block adopts the style of ‘Old Slab’, where the building is an elongated rectangu