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International Competition
Short Film
# 6 |
Wednesday 7th April 2010 / 8 pm
Cinéma l'Archipel
Paris |
Human |
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Thomas A. Østbye
Norway
2009 / 35 mm / 0:25:00
Human is a study of human being taken out of context.
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Desert 79° Journey Beyond the Known World |
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Anna Abrahams
Netherlands
2010 / 35 mm / 0 :18 :00
Desert 79° looks over the edge of the known world. Three stammering reports by polar travellers, filmed in various tints of white. (1) The Greek Pytheas was the first to describe the Arctic Ocean (330 BC). (2) Admiral John Ross met the only inhabitants of the universe on an unknown Arctic coast (1819). (3) After his hot air balloon crashed on its way to the North Pole, the Swedish inventor Andree embarked on a long journey by foot over the ice cap (1897).
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Baba |
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ZuzanaK Irchnerová-Spidlová
Czech Republic
2009 / HD / 0:20:00
Mom didn't ask me anything. She just took granny in. Now she's lays in the middle of my room. And I have to take care of her. All the time.
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Clean up |
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Sebastian Mez
Germany
2008 / 35 mm / 0:09:20
It's his job to recover the death chamber at an american prison after the executions of the condemned by lethal injection.
It's a ritual act in which the viewer becomes witnesses of an execution
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Alpha |
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Miguel Fonseca
Portugal
2008 / 35 mm / 0:27:00
What begins as a laboratory experiment of animals brings us to develop artificial beings capable of carrying out the most diverse and complex trials. These being, which perfectly resemble men, are intelligent and versatile. Before being delivered to their clients, the manufacturer develops a kind of final quality control test or certain skills (such as learning the client's language) are improved. Alpha is one of these artificial beings.
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March 29th - April 11th 2010
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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