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International Competition
Short Films
No. 9 |
Thuesday December 11th, 2014 / 6 pm
Cité Universitaire de Paris
Fondation Biermans-Lapötre |
Paleosol 80 South
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Jonathan Doweck, Amir Yatziv
Israel
2013 | 0:18:00
A poetic journey shot with thermal camera in the Israeli desert. The film follows an archeology expedition in its journey to reveal the biblical Mount Sinai. A fascinating encounter between ancient mythology and political present; between ritual sites and military training targets.
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All the World's a Stage - Ways of Seeing 2013 |
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Donna Verheijden
Netherlands
2014 | 0:18:00
"All the World’s a Stage” visually explores the meaning of the image in a world of constant retinal input. It questions and propagates the creation of today’s apparent or staged realities within mass media and politics. It reveals mythical truths and unveils true illusions by deconstructing and reconstructing realities that we often take as given.
Close your eyes and you’ll see.
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Wantee |
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Laure Prouvost
Great Britain
2013 | 0:15:00
Laure Prouvost created a dark muddy room at Grizedale Arts, which forms the setting for this new video work. The room is conceived as the living room of Prouvost’s fictional grandfather. This invented relative is described as a conceptual artist and one of Kurt Schwitters’s close friends. Prouvost’s work draws upon the dual aspect of Schwitter’s work – his celebrated Merz works, as well as his conventional portraits and landscapes. The room also shares the features of a tea room, inspired by Schwitter’s companion’s nickname, Wantee, due to her habit of asking, ‘want tea?’ Prouvost combines language and images to construct invented storylines that seduce and disturb, whist exploring the slippage between fiction and reality.
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My friend Nietzsche
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Meu amigo Nietzsche |
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Fáuston Da Silva
Brasil
2013 | 0:15:00
La rencontre improbable entre Lucas et Nietzsche marque le début d’une révolution dans l’esprit du jeune garçon, au sein de sa famille et dans la société. Au final, ce n’est plus un petit garçon, c’est une bombe !
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Through I know the river is Dry |
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Omar Robert Hamilton
Palestina, Egypt, Great Britain
2013 | 0:19:00
He has returned to Palestine. On the fraught road through the country he relives the choice that sent him to America and the forces of history now driving him home.
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Ghost Train |
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James Fleming, Kelly Hucker
Australia
2013 | 0:15:00
84 year-old Geoffrey has had to put his wife in a nursing home and feels completely alone until one day he chances upon a ghost train and takes a ride into Dracula’s. Inside this macabre cabaret-theatre restaurant, Geoff becomes captivated by the lead vampire in the show —a young actress named Gillian— and the two begin an unlikely friendship. As Gillian brings Geoff deeper into her world, Geoff also draws her further into his. Ghost Train is a documentary about the many forms of love and finding life in unexpected places. |
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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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