A Necessary Music

Also in this combined programme

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  Gewichtig wachten

  Puzzling quest for the ‘weight’ of the moment and the physical state of decision-making.

  • Spectrum Shorts
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  The Dirty Ones

  Alienating, stylish fiction produced by Harmony Korine about two Mennonite nuns whose car breaks down somewhere in the southern USA.

  • Spectrum Shorts
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  Man and Gravity

  A man with a colourful tricycle tries to raise an impossible freight in inaccessible surroundings. Gravity, but also karma.

  • Bright Future: Tiger Awards Competition Short Films
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  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

  • Spectrum Shorts
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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

  • Bright Future: Tiger Awards Competition Short Films
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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 joy.

  • Spectrum Shorts
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  Magnetic Sleep (Episode #1)

  The sensual portrayal of the desire of a female hypnotist in the 19th century.

  • Spectrum Shorts
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  Freude

  Hyperactive pop collage film that preaches peace at a subliminal level.

  • Spectrum Shorts
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  Cobra Mist

  Richardson casts a spell in this contemplative zone of the unknown. ‘This is land-escape-art. Existential, visceral and elemental.’ (Andrew Kötting)

  • Spectrum Shorts
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  The Black Dog’s Progress

  An urban nightmare, urgently told and delicately aided by the visceral music of Danish composer Sorenious Bonk.

  • Spectrum Shorts
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  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.

  • Bright Future: Tiger Awards Competition Short Films
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  Six Apartments

  Six Apartments is a poetic document of decline and deterioration (both physical and ideal), hypnotic and melancholic.

  • Bright Future: Tiger Awards Competition Short Films
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  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?

  • Spectrum Shorts
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  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.

  • Spectrum Shorts
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  Top Girl

  Truthful, tender and punctuated by ill advised sexual encounters, Top Girl’s all about coming of age.

  • Spectrum Shorts
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  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.

  • Spectrum Shorts

• Horizontal Boundaries

  This shape-shifting portrait of Los Angeles is a complex and disorientating tapestry of sliding horizon lines and shifting tectonics.

  • Signals: Size Matters
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  Tiny Riot Project

  Shooting teddy bears in crazy, anarchic puppet animation.

  • Spectrum Shorts
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  Fall

  Furniture smashes in an empty car park. Little houses sink and burn. Events of small destruction. Pathetic and momentarily cathartic.

  • Spectrum Shorts
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  False Aging

  Miming the processes of memory, Klahr pulls together ‘the discards of contemporary life into scenarios that seem like Hollywood films dimly remembered

  • Spectrum Shorts
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  One

  Original refreshing fiction in split-screen about morning rituals, grind and relationships within which the viewer is repeatedly wrongfooted.

  • Spectrum Shorts
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  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.

  • Bright Future: Tiger Awards Competition Short Films
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  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.

  • Bright Future: Tiger Awards Competition Short Films
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  Bernadette

  A masterful ‘experimental’ documentary and disarmingly alluring representation of Bernadette Devlin, one of the key figures in Northern Ireland’s repu

  • Bright Future: Tiger Awards Competition Short Films
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  Realms Pin

  Flash animated objects as witnesses and players in parallel universes, impacted and agitated by their unexpected roles. Buerkner spectacularly allows

  • Spectrum Shorts
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  The Presentation Theme

  Delightfully bizarre animation in which a snake with the head of a mammal reviews various body parts and naked men.

  • Bright Future: Tiger Awards Competition Short Films
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  The Parable of the Tulip Painter and the Fly

  Baroque film miniature inspired by an old Dutch master.

  • Spectrum Shorts