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International Competition
Short Film
# 3 |
October 13th, 2011 / 10.15 pm
Cinéma La Clef
Paris |
On the Way to the Sea |
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Tao Gu
Canada, Quebec, China
2010 | 00:20:00
In a surreal hybrid of documentary footage, experimental abstraction and fictional elements, “On the Way to the Sea” studies the human fragility and spiritual homelessness generated by such disasters.
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Liquidator |
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Karel Doing
Australia
2010 | 0:07:50
A project making innovative use of existing archive images of Willy Mullens’ silent film Haarlem (1922). The original film shows the city in straightforward shots and camera movements. Due to deterioration these images changed in a dramatic way. In the adaption Karel Doing zooms in on these effects with the aid of digital techniques like optical flow and morphing. Michal Osowski collaborated on the project with sound that is directely linked to the image, he used the changes in density of the film to control complex filters and distortion effects.
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A Film |
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Hisham Bizri
Lebanon, USA
2010 | 00:08:30
This is a film poem about love. A Lebanese-American filmmaker photographs a woman in Paris: as a trapeze artist, a model, a lover, and a child. The film attempts to capture that moment between wakefulness and dream. It carries within it melancholy and loneliness, sadness and joy, adulthood and childhood. It evolves out of the metaphor that life is a circular journey whose end is "to arrive where we started / And know that place for the first time" (T. S. Eliot, Little Gidding).
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Someone Else |
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Susanna Wallin
Great Britain
2010 | 00:14:00
Delicate balancing acts between the real and the imagined.Links:
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Together |
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Mickhail Zheleznikov
Russia
2010 | Digital | 0:04:30
A short reflection on lonely dog walking.
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Medusa's Head |
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Tova Beck-Friedmann
United States
2011 | 00:06:00
In a columned underground cistern, a woman is slowly dancing; her dreamlike movements are punctuated by dissonant images.
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Cinétique des sentiments |
Kinetik der Gefühle |
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Werner Biedermann
Germany
2010 | Digital | 0:05:00
Watching and moving are elementary human needs. Therefore non-verbal communication is to be seen in gesture, facial expression and moving. Dance with its means of expression is a ritualized and artistic language to mediate feelings. Eye-contact and the interest in motion are a kind of communication that is inherent in cinema. „The kinetics of feelings“ kaleidoscopically presents by means of a „found-foootage“ movie – beyond time and culture – motion and emotion which are the essence of cinema and life
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October 5th - 16th 2011
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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