Short Film Marathon Part One
Combined programme
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IFFR 2009
In dit verzamelprogramma
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The Foxhole Manifesto
Bad-ass, joyful romp of an animation on bumper stickers and a God who eats crisps, plus a runaway performance from poet Jeffrey McDaniel. A small… -
Corredores de verano
Original short film without words about three adolescents who roam the streets at night and hang around together. How far does the friendship go? -
Top Girl
Truthful, tender and punctuated by ill advised sexual encounters, Top Girl’s all about coming of age. -
The Presentation Theme
Delightfully bizarre animation in which a snake with the head of a mammal reviews various body parts and naked men. -
The Dirty Ones
Alienating, stylish fiction produced by Harmony Korine about two Mennonite nuns whose car breaks down somewhere in the southern USA. -
Gewichtig wachten
Puzzling quest for the ‘weight’ of the moment and the physical state of decision-making. -
False Aging
Miming the processes of memory, Klahr pulls together ‘the discards of contemporary life into scenarios that seem like Hollywood films dimly remembered -
Six Apartments
Six Apartments is a poetic document of decline and deterioration (both physical and ideal), hypnotic and melancholic. -
Bernadette
A masterful ‘experimental’ documentary and disarmingly alluring representation of Bernadette Devlin, one of the key figures in Northern Ireland’s repu -
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Despair
The individual seems to go under desperately in a lost battle with almighty nature. Only assimilation still seems to offer salvation. A dark choreogra -
Realms Pin
Flash animated objects as witnesses and players in parallel universes, impacted and agitated by their unexpected roles. Buerkner spectacularly allows -
Brises
Ramirez grew up under the dictatorship in Chile, in his mother’s arms. She told him that, paradoxically, it was the happiest period of her life. -
One
Original refreshing fiction in split-screen about morning rituals, grind and relationships within which the viewer is repeatedly wrongfooted. -
The Black Dog’s Progress
An urban nightmare, urgently told and delicately aided by the visceral music of Danish composer Sorenious Bonk. -
Ghosts and Gravel Roads
With gorgeous cinematography, Ghosts and Gravel Roads plays out like a horror movie without any ghosts, monsters, or even people, really. -
Dreznica
A short documentary film compiled from amateur Super-8 footage from the 1970s. A lyric journey through the images and sensations revealed by the memor -
Man and Gravity
A man with a colourful tricycle tries to raise an impossible freight in inaccessible surroundings. Gravity, but also karma. -
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A Necessary Music
Derived from texts by residents of Roosevelt Island, and Bioy Casares, A Necessary Music is a musically conceived science fiction film featuring Rober -
Fall
Furniture smashes in an empty car park. Little houses sink and burn. Events of small destruction. Pathetic and momentarily cathartic. -
Magnetic Sleep (Episode #1)
The sensual portrayal of the desire of a female hypnotist in the 19th century. -
Origin of the Species
Existentialist portrait by former Tiger Short winner of a man who lives with his obsession for Darwin in self-imposed isolation. -
Horizontal Boundaries
This shape-shifting portrait of Los Angeles is a complex and disorientating tapestry of sliding horizon lines and shifting tectonics. -
The Parable of the Tulip Painter and the Fly
Baroque film miniature inspired by an old Dutch master. -
Cobra Mist
Richardson casts a spell in this contemplative zone of the unknown. ‘This is land-escape-art. Existential, visceral and elemental.’ (Andrew Kötting) -
Bagh Dad Bar Ber
Dark, worrying short about a barber in Baghdad who has to earn his visa to the United States in a gruesome way. -
Y’a plus d’os
The spiral of violence in this baroque sketch from the gypsy milieu inevitably leads to the most confrontational final shot of this festival.
