Outlet

Robert Banks | USA | 2000 | 3' |

| IFFR 2001

What do women subject themselves to in order to maintain the image that society dictates they have? Robert C. Banks Jr. (31) was inspired by several experimental film-makers from America, Europe and Japan. He has so far made and produced five short films.

Also in this combined programme

L’ultimo giorno di Machomask

Gay-macho-sado film about the ultimate struggle in the ring between Machomask and Super Sadico Loco.
main programme short
Heal Me

A half-naked woman in an empty space, vulnerable and helpless.
main programme short
Saanjh

Deeply tragic story about a young woman and a baby that dies in an Indian train.
main programme short
Rejected

Alarming short animation sketches were never broadcast by the TV station that commissioned them.
main programme short
Arcade

Worrying, prize-winning animation film about creatures that populate their own universe.
main programme short
Quiero Morir

A hard-as-nails short film about euthanasia, not from love but from revenge…
main programme short
Madonna with child

Very personal, pretty explicit and worrying portrayal of the birth of Christ.
main programme short