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International Competition
Short Films
No. 5 |
Wednesday December 10th, 2014 / 1 pm
Cité Universitaire de Paris
Collège d'Espagne |
Where it was that i was not
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Dove era che non ero |
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Salvatore Insana
Italy
2013 | 0:06:00
We are not there, we do not find ourselves, almost lost, almost suspended. Alert, ready to shoot, the danger is out of range and has no signals. Going toward the light to take dangerous risks. Restless tremor of face the horizon keeping our eyes wide open. Assuming or foreseeing the abyss, in a further condition in which we play the “non-adherence” to the present time.
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Travelers in the Night |
Reizigers in de Nacht |
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Ena Sendjarevic
Netherlands
2013 | 010:45
A woman works in a gas station, alone, at night. People she doesn’t know step into her world and out again, leaving her in her own little bubble. Until one night, a special kind of stranger walks in.
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Found Found Found |
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Dirk de Bruyn
Australia
2014 | 0:18:00
Found Found Found, his most recent video essay, expands his trip through Eastern Europe into a reflection on a visible change in geopolitics, suggesting that, “surveillance, metamorphosed from avant-garde and minimalist cinema, [is] the 'new norm', and witness[ing] the new stasis that hypermobility institutes globally and the florid thinking it elicits."
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Mariage
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JhihYi Huang
Taiwan
2014 | 0:19:20
Liu Pei and Lee Shu Man are a middle age couple, both of them work as senior high school teachers, they live very happy lives with their daughter DauDau. Lee Shu Man is having a son unexpectedly, and Liu Pei insists they should keep the baby because of his parents’ expectation. However, One-Child Policy makes Lee Shu Man has to choose between job and have a second child. The couple has opposite idea about the baby.
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You are here |
Que estés aquí |
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Daniel Ulacia
Micronesia
2014 | 0:12:00
A man remembers his moments lived next to her: a meeting place, a conversation, a trip to the sea. Incomplete moments which trigger a set of emotions and slowly fade away until a break-up occurs.
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Limited Speech Holds Endless Misunderstandings |
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Orr Menirom
USA, Israel
2013 | 0:10:00 (version 2)
In 2010, Noam Chomsky, a linguist and political activist, was invited to give a talk in Birzeit University near Ramallah. Identified with the radical left, Chomsky was denied entry to Israel and sent back to Jordan. Shortly after the incident, Dana Weiss from the Israeli Channel 2 met with him at the hotel lobby in Amman for a 40- minute interview. During the interview, deep ideological tensions between Chomsky and Weiss surfaced. In the video, the interview language is cut apart into individual word fragments. This material is then recomposed into a new monologue told by a third, invisible character. The tense tone of the interview clashes with the intimacy of the new text. The repositioning of words allows the invisible character to articulate intimate thoughts that Chomsky and Weiss can’t express. According to Chomsky’s theory “Universal-Grammar”, language enables the pronunciation of endless expressions with a limited amount of words- a vocabulary. Similar to verbal language, the video’s image is a system with an inner grammar. It depicts a deserted landscape, portrayed through a complex of digital fragments. In this landscape, the relations between a limited amount of fragments create endless variations of the image.
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No More Lonely Nights |
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Fabio Scaccioli
Italy
2014 | 0:20:00
This film is an excavation experience among the forms of the fictional film, especially of melodrama. Emblem of cinema as an imitation of life, under his polished surface melodrama hides the restlessness of life itself. Starting from the cliché of the woman crying over a lost love, a journey begins in search of the background radiation of fiction cinema. It was necessary to forget every linguistic and dramaturgical convention, and get lost in a multitude of images and sounds, of crystal universes about to explode and subatomic labyrinths, to the point where image ceases to represent, and becomes pulsation. It weaves fields of modulated tensions, and reveals the vibration of the unseen. Cinema becomes a language of the invisible. A whisper that one can hear between porosities and ripples of the image as simulation.
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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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