Current Frames is a survey on the international short film scene, featuring perspectives and stories from around the world.
French filmmaking duo Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel are known for bold and uncompromising works that blend themes of resistance with hybrid multimedia forms. Employing a cinematic language that is radical, ingenious, and expressive, their films are driven by critical reflections on political and social issues, which no doubt situate them among the most innovative voices in film and art today. Hypnotic Bursts brings together a selection of the duo’s acclaimed short films for the first time in Singapore, where viewers are invited to set foot in a world of freedom and possibilities.
The screening will be followed by a post-screening dialogue session with filmmakers Jake Low, Shaista Dinis, Alexander Lee, and Grace Song.
Laëtitia, Roca, Nico and Naël are in a band. As per usual, they meet late afternoon before rehearsal in a vacant lot. The group will soon no longer exist; they will be forced to disband because Laetitia is moving away to study. This is the story of four young adults who do not want to say goodbye.
A lost baby toon, confronted with a contemporary world and its empty spaces, asks himself how to grow up.
In Corsica, a woman chooses to care for the earth by burning it.
A group of animals live on a wild coastline and try to heal the ills caused by the contemporary world. A kind of rehab.
Caroline Poggi was born in 1990 in Ajaccio. She studied at the University of Corsica, and then graduated from the University Paris 8. Born in Toulouse in 1988, Jonathan Vinel studied editing at La Fémis. They began directing solo before embarking on a collaboration for As Long As Shotguns Remain, which was awarded the Golden Bear for Best Short Film at the Berlinale in 2014. Their first feature film, Jessica Forever, premiered at TIFF (2018) and the Berlinale (2019). Their second feature Eat the Night was presented in Cannes Directors’ Fortnight 2024. The Blessing, their latest short film, is selected for the Pardi di Domani: Concorso Corti d’Autore, Locarno Film Festival 2026.
