Shorts: The Body of Crime
The Body of Crime reflects on and reconstruct acts of crime. Moving from an epistolary documentary to animation, from a computer-generated reconstruction to a Kafkaesque court drama, this program explores how crime is narrated, visualized and judged.
Each film examines a different case, while we inhabit shifting positions: the community, the perpetrator, the victim and the judge. The body is translated both as material evidence and as a site of racial fetishization, surveillance, violence and the mechanisms of justice. Together, the works question how crime is constructed, perceived, and ultimately embodied.
In this combined programme
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Loynes
Dorian Jespers
A Kafkaesque courtroom drama set in 19th-century Liverpool, recounting the trial of a corpse with neither name nor past. Dozens have gathered for the absurd ceremony — and perhaps to deliver justice.
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Sixty-seven Milliseconds
Galdric Fleury, Antoine Fontaine
In search of a bullet whose trail has been captured on surveillance camera footage, the film follows its trajectory and those of its main protagonists. Blending the early cinema technique of chronophotography with CGI, Sixty-seven Milliseconds questions the legitimacy of policing in France and warns of its excesses.
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Life with an idiot
Theodore Ushev
Accused by the authorities of not working hard enough, Vladimir is punished by being forced to live with a man deemed an “idiot.” He selects Vova from a psychiatric institution. Vova communicates almost exclusively through a single utterance: “ouh.”
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How to Catch a Butterfly
Kiriko Mechanicus
In 2021, 21-year-old Robert Aaron Long kills 8 Asian women in massage parlors in Atlanta, Georgia as a way to suppress his uncontrollable sexual desire. Dutch-Japanese filmmaker Kiriko Mechanicus writes letters to the young murderer to find out what his killings have to do with her sexual life. What do our racial fetis...