Kinobox: Malaz Usta

Playing at Kinobox's new location in the foyer of Auraro Kino Fokus, films can be watched from 11:00–21:00. Anyone can access Kinobox, for free. You can enter from the front doors to the Aurora Kino, or through the library or rådhus.

SPACE_INVADERS.exe, Malaz Usta, 2024, 11 min

Exiles are asked questions concerning their life, (plans), and reasons for (their choices). The film tries to communicate the feelings of the displaced when being confronted with such questions which are drawn from the director's memory. A parody of misinformation and of broken systems, and an exploration of feelings of confusion, loneliness, and uncertainty.

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Malaz Usta is a Syrian filmmaker, a designer and a visual artist, working with film, graphics, animation, editing, and sound. He studied TV, and Cinema in Istanbul, and he is currently a researcher at the Netherlands Film Academy. His works deal with different issues of displacement, and ideas of waiting, uncertainty, belonging, identity, and home. His first short film A Year in Exile (2020) premiered at Ji.hlava IDFF.

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KINOBOX screens a broad range of works and artistic approaches, selected with consideration for their material, political and aesthetic sensibilities, but central to our curation is a belief in the importance of artists moving-image to question how we consume and are consumed by our media landscape.