Special Programme  

Hawaiian Islands is the place where lava flows from the very core of the earth. Constantly repetitive, mesmerizing images of an erupting volcano hypnotize and engage in an almost psychedelic visual experiment. In this video essay, the pop culture, contemporary art practices, science fiction, and the history of the Hawaiian Islands intertwine while posing the questions – what’s the use of our ambitions to know the foreign lands? Can we tame the magnificent and unpredictable nature? The film discusses the post-colonial state, ecology and human cognition.

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Awards

“Visions du Réel” International Film Festival – Original Music Award, 2021
Berlin International Film Festival – Encounters Special Mention, 2021

Fern Silva

Fern Silva is a cinema director and video artist. His films consider methods of narrative, ethnographic, and documentary filmmaking as the starting point for structural experimentation. He has created a body of film, video, and projection work, most of which are shot on 16mm that has been screened and performed at various festivals, galleries, museums, and cinematheques including the Toronto, Berlin, Locarno. He studied film at the Massachusetts College of Art and Bard College and is a fellow at the Film Study Center at Harvard University.

Selected Filmography

Ride Like Lighting, Crash Like Thunder, 2017
Wayward Fronts, 2014
Peril of Antilles, 2011
Sahara Mosaic, 2009
After Marks, 2008
Spinners, 2008
Notes from a Bastard Child, 2007