Short Film Marathon Part Two
Combined programme
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IFFR 2009
In dit verzamelprogramma
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Dropping Furniture
We witness the destruction of a living environment. Slightly violent, yet also liberating. -
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Aanaatt
An animated, analogue picture of the future, involving seriously figurative mysteries and everyday playful abstractions. -
El hombre muerto
Magic-realistic black-and-white short about a plantation worker who falls on his own knife and hallucinates. Strange mood sketch of loneliness and voi -
Those Crazy Insides
A succulently bizarre sci-fi nature documentary of what really might be ‘inside’. -
Planet A
An animated vision of mutating environment, echoing an ecological disaster, the desertification of the Aral Sea. -
Domenica, 6 Aprile, ore 11:42
There are many ways to look at the landscape. This video by the Italian collective Flatform is one of them. -
When Worlds Collude
When worlds collude, something outside of description is always just about to happen. -
27 Years
What you read is what you get: an animated selfportrait of the maker. In support of the photo-booth industry. -
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Our Wonderful Nature
Amazing animation about shrews that fight as if they were acting in The Matrix. -
Kempinski
The people in Kempinski, filmed in Mali, imagine the future and speak about it in the present tense. Poetic and confusing. -
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Les ruissellements du diable
A short film in which reality and fiction are subtly mixed while the boundaries of male and female are extended. -
SHU
Shot in 2004, SHU shows an isolated high-security prison in the Californian Mojave Desert at the time of the Blue Hour. -
Rally
Rally shows nine different demonstrations in Istanbul in which the maker questions the authenticity of this kind of group behaviour with an almost inv -
Fences
Fences is a short abstract handmade film, creating optical illusions by exploring graphic fence and wheel structures. -
KERMIS – Ode aan de ongedwongenheid van het bestaan
Slightly melancholy observations of fairground visitors; the fair like life itself. -
Myth Labs
Colburn preaches animated calamity about the consequences of crystal meth use in the American countryside. -
2 Horas
Father and son meet after five years at the airport. Moving, sober fiction about family bonds and intimacy. -
Eintritt zum Paradies um 3€20
Paradise is not what it used to be. Animation with sharp observations of life in and around an open-air swimming pool. -
Coagulate
In this mysterious choreography of fluids, man and fish serve as sculptures, the last landmarks to behave according to the laws of nature as we… -
29 Febbraio
Beautiful, well acted study of loneliness that ends hopefully. A day in the life of an Italian factory worker. -
#37
In his ongoing quest for the ultimate visual music for the eye, Joost Rekveld has provided an undeniable masterpiece with his new work #37 after… -
Night Sweat
Analogue Hi-8 video blown up to 35mm film, this night truly sweats. Definitely for those of us who enjoy letting things get a little salty. -
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Work, Rest & Play
A captivating video triptych exploring the themes of labour and leisure to illustrate the endless whirr of activity in our pursuit of meaning and happ -
Matter in Motion
Give me matter and motion and I will construct the universe (René Descartes, 1596-1650). Semiconductor reconstructs the city of Milan in a stunning wa -
Barbee Butcher
Humorous clay animation about a green creature that merrily cuts up a Barbie doll to change itself into a femme fatale. With an unexpected result! -
Destination Finale
Original 8mm amateur film, shot in 1964, found in Saigon in 2005 and edited by Widmann with a feeling for drama. -
12 Explosionen
Twelve times Johann Lurf sets off firework in the nocturnal streets: cheerful images without words.
