Glued & Screwed #24 • Nederlands Filmhuis Denhaag

Andrew Norman Wilson, Eva Giolo, Antonina Białobrzeska

Glued & Screwed #24

The 24th edition of Glued & Screwed presents three well-considered short films that explore the endlessly fascinating world of language and cultural heritage.

The 24th edition of Glued & Screwed presents three well-considered short films that explore the endlessly fascinating world of language and cultural heritage. Starting off the evening is a film documenting the beautifully absurd Swiss tradition of Silvesterchlausen: a ritual that has been performed in Appenzell for well over 500 years. We then turn to the Dolomites, a mountain range in the northern Italian Alps, to explore ‘Ladin,’ the minority Rhaeto-Romance language spoken in the region. The evening concludes with a film and conversation with Polish filmmaker Antonina Białobrzeska, who takes us on an introspective journey in which she sets out to translate a 19th-century Polish poem into real-life actions: a language lived and felt rather than spoken.

This edition we will screen the following films:

Silvesterchlausen (United States, 2025, 15') by Andrew Norman Wilson

‘Silvesterchlausen’ is a mysterious tradition that takes place every New Year’s Eve in Switzerland’s Appenzell, the most conservative part of the country. Groups of six men dress in ornate costumes and engage in wordless, polyphonic yodeling and rhythmic bell clanging. The ritual has been performed for at least 500 years, but nobody knows how or why it began. 

With his film, Andrew Norman Wilson uses telephoto lenses, macro probe lenses, and thermal cameras to make viewers keenly aware of the tradition’s sensory dimensions, which—due to its lack of a definitive meaning—could be the point.

Memory Is an Animal, It Barks with Many Mouths (Belgium, Italy, 2025, 25') by Eva Giolo

In Eva Giolo’s latest work the resonances of place, magic and myth unfold through play. Attendant to the landscape through a child’s-eye, the film streams into the specific, hidden, and vast geologies of the Dolomite mountains, through the trills and murmurs of Ladin, the minority Rhaeto-Romance language spoken in the region. As the children narrate local folklore, this language and its oral traditions, passed from body to body, itself becomes corporeal and indivisible from the land.

Exegi Monumentum (The Netherlands, France, Italy, 2025, 20') by Antonina Białobrzeska

On a quest to translate poetry into action, a filmmaker climbs Mont Blanc to recite a 19th-century Polish poem only to find that real grandeur lies not in success, but in the struggle to make meaning.

Glued & Screwed

Short experiment on the screen

Glued & Screwed is a project by screening platform wysiwyg in collaboration with Filmhuis Den Haag. This film evening serves as a platform for experimentation by (young) artists, designers and other makers working with the medium of film. The films and visual language that are missing in the regular film landscape are given a stage here and offer visitors challenging experiences.

During a discussion with the makers in the hall or during the drinks in the cafe there is space for dialogue and getting acquainted.

Click here for more information about Glued & Screwed.

Regisseur Andrew Norman Wilson, Eva Giolo, Antonina Białobrzeska
Land Verenigde Staten, België, Italië, Nederland, Frankrijk
Taal Divers
Ondertiteling Engels
Speelduur 90 min
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