EX-Now 2 International Competition

in thin air Rushnan Jaleel | India | 2025 | 12min ‘in thin air’ attempts to touch the invisible plane of pure image wedged between camera and subject, to move the world within the frame rather than turning the frame towards the world. Ruptures in the image allow visible subjects to be woven and sifted through the weave of the edit like strands of hair through fingers. OVERWORK Céline Berger | Germany | 2025 | 10min The found-footage short film OVERWORK offers a personal reinterpretation of a collection of educational 16mm films from the German Federal Employment Agency. Unmeasurable Particles Francisco Rojas | Chile | 2026 | 10min A hovering camera exploration; The flow of a river becomes foreground and subject at the same time, movement creating fabric-like patterns of infinite permutations, tactile visual phenomena. Afternoon Hearsay Peng Zuqiang | China | 2025 | 19min 8.75mm film - a