The judges’ thoughts: “[How Now, House?] highlights different life trajectories, spanning diverse cultures and eras, all brought together in a single place—a house in Rotterdam. The video juxtaposes multicolored silhouettes performing everyday tasks such as watering plants, cleaning, or tinkering. These gestures, which seem familiar to us, interact with the more poignant stories of the house’s former occupants. You’ll find testimonies about experiences during lockdown and World War II, interwoven with stories of discrimination, neighborly relations, family, and shared living. The technique then illustrates this theme. Different silhouettes blend into one another. These special effects are achieved by modifying the frames one by one, using the principle of rotoscoping. This house thus appears as a guardian of the memories of all its residents. A theory of time is then developed, that of physicist Carlo Rovelli. According to him, the universe might resemble a vast mosaic of events where each moment exists primarily through its relationship with the others. It is therefore not a straight line leading from the past to the future, but a multitude of moments that echo one another. You may also notice these small details while watching, such as the layers of overlapping wallpaper, or the new hardwood floor covering the old 1970s carpet. The strength of this short film lies in the fact that, beyond a personal appropriation of a place through its decoration and the time spent within it we realize that it is more of a place of memory that brings together various realities, not just our own. We inhabit a place without completely erasing those who occupied it in the past, and it is essential to shed light on this “before,” so as not to forget, so as not to erase life stories that were sometimes difficult, which some would like to consign to silence.” @ucauvergne.bsky.social @tessmartinart.com#timeisaconstruct​