Megan-Leigh Heilig, Engulfed 

Engulfed (inner-battles and what, what, what) is the first in a series of auto-documentaries about the perils of love;  getting lost or literally being eaten alive, engulfed, in the act of loving. The cacophony of narrators tell the story of a young woman’s first relationship, her traumatic postpartum experience and how the legal system ultimately failed to protect her after she became permanently differently-abled. The film explores notions of the interrupted body narrative, sexual abuse, alcoholism, vulnerability and the question of how to heal from inherited trauma. The audience is assaulted by a combination of found footage, orphaned footage and portraits of the artist’s mother in her home before she tragically passed away in 2021. The images and voice notes are the last material ephemera of Liza and her home; the house is still there but it’s empty, quiet, and all the smells are now gone. The film is a flashback, a brief window into a home and a life that has sadly since gone to ground. The artists troubled relationship with stories and story-telling, as well as asking uncomfortable questions of the family archive, has lead her to ongoing research into apologies, forgiveness and redemption narratives in film, literature and pop culture. 

Megan-Leigh Heilig

Giorgos Efthimiou My Name is I Killed Macbeth 

We have to kill our grandfathers and grandmothers.

We have to fire the sacred rules and the ancient texts.
We have to spit on their graves.
Die Macbeth, die!

Year: 2021
Duration: 27'
This film was made for Makbetamaximus

"THE MOST RADICAL THEATRE TROUPE FROM GREECE"

Khavn De La Cruz

Credits

Director - Editor - Color/Sound Editor: Giorgos Efthimiou

Camera Operators: Giorgos Efthimiou, Eirini Tampasouli, Vasou Pitsi, Areti Efstathiou, Thanos Thiriou, Konstantinos Aggelos Afionis

Sound Recorders: Eirini Tampasouli, Vasou Pitsi, Giorgos Efthimiou

Scenography: Giorgos Efthimiou, Areti Efstathiou, Vasou Pitsi, Eirini Tampasouli, Penny Kyriopoulou

Make Up: Eirini Tampasouli, Vasou Pitsi

With

Vasou Pitsi, Dimitris Ameladiotis, Giorgos Efthimiou, Eirini Tampasouli, Penny Kyriopoulou, Pythagoras Kotsoulas

Screenings

International Film Festival Canton 2021 (China) | Horror Unleashed 2021 (Portugal) | Free the Kitsch Film Festival 2021 (Greece) | Guttercast (Usa) | Bizarrya short film festival (Portugal) 2022 [Award] | Sphere 2022 - World Cinema Carnival (India) | Festival Kubrick 2023 (Greece) | Tribute to Giorgos Efthimiou by Hellas Documentary Association 2025 (Greexe)

Info - Stills - and backstage of the film

https://kioythings.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_51.html

Vincent Guilbert

Here's a - veeeery - short word about my film:

We’ll go down the abyss in silence is a film about resistance.

I know it's pretty short, but I feel that it's the most important thing to say.

Of course, it is about the Fukushima disaster, and what men have done to nature...

Nicolas Gerifaud

Here is a thought that infuses my film making:" Le temps ne passe pas, c'est nous qui passons à travers." - "Time does not pass, it is we who pass through it." This is from the film Day After Day (Jour après jour) by Jean-Daniel Pollet.

Jurij Meden

Past two decades have streamlined and uniformed our experience of watching films, so we should celebrate heroic initiatives like Cadavre Exquis which invoke the spirit of cinema as a collective voyage of discovery.

Lisette Olsthoorn

Sure I can tell about my film, the way that I try to make film - with a critical mindset towards the economy and ethics of filmmaking - and share thoughts about experiences with the industry, compare that to art filmmaking (lower budgets, different mindsets etc). To give you a quick response. 

Eager to share and discuss with the others present!