‘Love is Louder shortfilms’

In line with the exhibition Love is Louder, there are many different faces of love to explore in this short-film program. From discovering love to breaking it off, love for friends or family, or radical love as a weapon in times of social upheaval. Seven filmmakers each have their own take on possible forms of or to love. Showing us that love rarely comes easy, but it is always worth fighting for.


Loveboard by Felipe Casanova (2023)

CH/BE, 2023, DCP, 18'
By recomposing the obsolete pieces of plastic and metal of a broken phone Loveboard takes us on a journey through the digital remains of the fragmented fading memory of a grand first love. A playful reflection on what is left behind.

Anhel de Llum by Alba Cross Pelise (2023)

ESP, 2023, DCP, 11', Catalan

A cinematic declaration of love to Barcelona, and the chosen family of filmmaker Alba Cros Pellisé. She lets the radiant rays of the sun cast light on all that is important to her in the city where she met other lesbian women for the first time and where the members of her chosen family live.


How do you Measure a Year? by Jay Rosenblatt (2021)
US, 2021, DCP, 28' 
A father films his daughter every year on her birthday, asking the same questions. In a mere 29 minutes we see a girl go from a toddler to a young woman while the father/daughter relationship evolves.

Emin & Emin by Tracey Emin (1996) 
UK, 1996, video to DCP, 3' 
The artist and her father on the beach in Cyprus. Set against the sound of crashing waves, we hear Emin's father softly singing a lullaby in Turkish. A native of the island, Emin’s father was a complicated figure in her life, both his presence and absence informed much of her art.

Barefoot Birthdays on Unbreakable Glass by Rebecca Jane Arthur (2024) 
BE, 2024, DCP, 17' 
Three women – Constance, Azam, Anna – each spend a day with the filmmaker in their homes. Through tender and detailed observations of her protagonists, the filmmaker is revealed in her proximity to each of them who confide in her stories of art creation, immigration, and familial bonds and breaks.

Silent Conversations by Eva Giolo (2023) 
BE, 2023, DCP, 8' 
Hand-processed and self-printed 16mm reversal and negative colour films, Silent Conversations is a study of twenty-second sequences of embraces that unfolds as a series of time-based portraits.

I Hope I’m Loud When I’m Dead by Beatrice Gibson (2018) 
UK, 2018, DCP, 21' 
By turns raucous and reserved, ‘I Hope I’m Loud When I’m Dead’ ponders the future of a world in flux as seen through the eyes of motherhood accented by poets CAConrad and Eileen Myles.