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International Competition
Short Films
No. 3 |
Tuesday December 9th, 2014 / 5 pm
Cité Universitaire de Paris
Maison de l'Argentine |
Threnody for the victims of Marikana |
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Aryan Kaganof
South Africa
2014 | 0:27:00
In a response to a conference held at Stellenbosch University which focused on various landscapes within Marikana, Aryan Kaganof's film Night is Coming: Threnody For the Victims of Marikana, attempts to theorise Marikana as a ritual murder.
Premiering at the Festival, Kaganof uses the first viewed footage of the massacre to provide an abstract interplay between the site of the Marikana and the isolated space of academia. The film deals with Marikana as a profound telling landscape in South Africa which, according to Kaganof, has often been overlooked by academics.
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A Hole in the Sky |
Godka Cirka |
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Álex Lora, Antonio Tibaldi
Somalia, France
2013 | 0:10:00
It will focus on Alifa, Sahra, and Faadumo, three shepherdesses of different generations. We will follow their daily lives, their plights and struggles as they deal with analphabetism, shortage of wáter, and Female Genital Cutting… |
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Nevermind |
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Jean-Marc E. Roy
Kanada
2013 | 0:05:00
A motel. A memory.Kurt Cobain.
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Exorcize me* |
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Ang Sookoon
Singapur
2013 | 0:03:00
Sookoon Ang works with various mediums, including video, installation, drawing and printmaking. She majored in sculpture in School of Visual Arts, New York and has participated in the Rijksakademie Artist Research Residency in Amsterdam. Her work addresses both the physical and metaphysical world— the space where we physically dwell and the interior space within us that is our spiritual, emotional and imaginative world, and how these two worlds reflect and have an effect on each other.
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Night Blooming Flower |
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Karl Nussbaum
USA
2013 | 0:11:00
We often bring flowers to our loved ones in the hospital. And then, in the dark, these flowers become the silent witnesses to the changes the patient makes in their transition from life to death.
‘Night Blooming Flower’ is a meditation on death, memory, acceptance and the passage into the world of the dead, specifically the moment of leaving. This circular film is projected onto a Vietnam era parachute that gently sways as if breathing.
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Fish |
Peixe |
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Diogo Oliveira, Jo Serfaty
Brasil
2014 | 0:16:20
Confiné dans une chambre, un homme s’immerge dans un nouveau corps. À l’extérieur, la vie continue.
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Seven Times a day we bemoan our lot and at night we get up to avoid dreaming* |
Sieben Mal am Tag beklagen wir unser Los und Nachts stehen wir auf um nicht zu träumen |
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Susann Maria Hempel
Germany
2014 | 0:18:00
A cinematic devotional book. Based on interviews with an unemployable sufferer (and his fellows), living in the East German countryside, who lost his memory in 1989 and woke up into several nightmares.
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December 8th-11th, 2014
An international jury overview the sections of short films coming from all over the world. The festival prefers film treating important subjects in an original way, films which don't avoid ambiguity and complexity, films, which are sometimes stay enigmatic, so that refection and mind are going on moving, exceptional films, which covers all kind of artistically expressions, films open for esthetical innovation, shortly films reflecting the perturbing strangeness of the modern world in a complex way.
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