ROADMAP 2027
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Lido.shorts is a travelling biennial festival for snack sized films that resonate, when cinema becomes essay, memory becomes material, and form becomes a way of reimagining the world.
Lido.shorts is looking for short films that do not simply tell stories, but magnetize with sounds, rhythms, gestures and traces - works guided by a personal idea, theme or philosophical question - hybrid documentaries, artists’ films and experimental forms - works that move between memory and invention, sculpting the past or rehearsing possible futures.
The curatorial team around the infamous artistic director Dr. Victor Sternweiler is exploring new terrain at the crossroads of arts and science ...
activists
When Cyrill Gutsch, a charismatic leader of New York' s creative class collides with legendary ocean activist Paul Watson, he decides to turn his life upside-down, drumming up artists, publicists, celebrities and scientists to collaboratively fight against the nearing collapse of the worlds oceans.
The anatomy of an eco-revolution.
believers
lluminating the exceptional career of Hell, who developed creative legacy in the paradigm shift from analogue to electronic music. When the pandemic storm sets the entertainment sector on fire, the artist is crafting an addictive elexier, bringing the enthusiastic vibe of NYC and Berlin in the early 90s to a whole new demographic.
game changers
Industry top dogs, collectors and dealers sharing dinner table with the go-to lawyer from Miami. For decades, such tidy narratives fueled the reigning ideology of art world success.
Originality seems to be the perfect antidot.
With rising influencer node networks and social amplifying reach and impact, new artist generations have options making money in other spheres than flipping burgers. Like reengineering classic cars, boats or designing vegan couture. Originals are rare analogue masterpieces prepared to be scaled-up in a synthetic world.
enablers
When German sixties intelligentsia gets infected by new world optimism - the unthinkable occurs. Bold ideas from the Friedrichs, a european art world couple.
Early collaborations with todays masters Beuys, Baselitz, Richter, Palermo, Twombly, Warhol, Chamberlain, de Maria, Judd and Flavin. Commissioning single artists works - enabling ambitions, realizing and preserving artistic visions with iconic site specific artworks for eternity: the nucleus of imaginative new thinking.
It is still on ...
transformers
Episodic glimpses at topflight father-son pairings in the world of motor sports. The digital transformation transcends traditional roles in every industry.
As they embark on digital transformation, the successors of great racing drivers start pushing boundaries for a smarter tomorrow: fighting for diversity and equality, against racism, plastic pollution and climate change. A symbiotic relationship that sparks new creative possibilities for fresh and captivating content, that resonates with broader audiences. A smoke test.
where do we go from here
In 2020, a private jet is approaching Kangra airstrip deep inside the state of Himachal Pradesh, India. Onboard a handful of casted political and cultural thought leaders heading to the serene hide away hill station Dharamsala, the residence in exile of His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
6 years later, the protagonists regroup on a mountain summit in Switzerland to actively discuss, endorse and enable the blue print for Lido.Shorts, an immersive global art spectacle catalysing the core messages of HH in an multi-engines interactive global community stream.
