Short Film Marathon Part 2
In this combined programme
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A Blood-Red Robe
Deeply sensual film about the enigma called love. Between a man and a woman in a hotel room, every word and gesture matters greatly.
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still in cosmos
The collaboration between Makino and drone musician Jim O’Rourke again results in a compelling film that envelops you with a dense universe.
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Fair Trade
Cool animation with great soundtrack about a young woman who tries to shake off her past.
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Gregor Alexis
Jana Debus’s critically praised, gripping and intimate portrait of her schizophrenic brother goes far beyond documentary.
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Arena
Golden Palm winner at Cannes in 2009 is superbly shot, unemphatic drama about a man under house arrest, occupied by tattooing.
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Zwölf Boxkämpfer jagen Viktor quer über den großen Sylter Deich 140 9
Ingeniously compiled sequence of 3664 found film frames contains a different image for each viewer to latch onto.
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57.600 secondi di notte e luce invisibili
Twelve figures walk four identical routes in repetitive patterns, according to a logic all their own. At a great pace, day and night succeed each o
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Little Red Hoodie
Disquieting modern adaptation of Little Red Riding Hood, about two precocious girls, a TV set, a grandmother and a wolf. Bizarre and chilling.Scree
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This Is Alaska
A couple of sociable, idealistic Swedes looked for happiness in Alaska. So, did they succeed?
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Unforgettable Memory
In China, few people want to be reminded of the events of 1989. The maker of Unforgettable Memory is still struggling with the past.
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Heliocentric
The sun finally breaks through in the cinema with the blinding Heliocentric by the popular scientific Semiconductor Films. Soundtrack by BJ Nilsen.
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Aliquot Light
Sharp, white, clear: Aliquot Light has the aesthetics of basic 3D computer animations (global illumination), but was entirely made with real models
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Coney Island Baby
Uplifting story about two elderly ladies, a cowboy and an oven containing a wad of money. The protagonist is Coney Island.Screened before Entrenami
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Patti Smith: Long for the City
After Spirit, screened in Rotterdam last year, this is another portrait of Patti Smith in New York. This time without music, but with two poems.
Portrait #3: House of Sound
Respectfully, Vanessa Renwick bids farewell to one of the cornerstones of the black community in Portland: the House of Sound record store.
Hoe vertel ik het mijn ouders #1
The artist Arno Coenen now explains to his father what is art is about. Occasionally hilarious portrait, full of uneasy communication.
Le début de l’hiver
A remarkable young actor features in this terrifying sketch of a boy hitchhiking home from school in the French countryside.
Corazonada
Everything is linked together in this volatile family. Grandma is freaking out and the cat knows why.
Wednesday Morning Two A.M.
Powerful animation in the typical Lewis Klahr style, which this time derives its power from the art of omission. With music by The Shangri-Las.
Wrong
Experimental film with a measure of Finnish humour, in which a depressed man has an imaginary conversation with his ex-wife that seriously gets out
Laitue
In Laitue, the screen is a large white sheet of paper where refined sketches and scribbles render a fragmented drama.
Rita
Enigmatic short about the blind girl Rita, who enjoys a brief moment of freedom with a boy. Simulation of the experience of being blind.
For Cultural Purposes Only
In an age dominated by moving images, what would it feel like to never see an image of the place that you came from?
On the Coast
A day on the Turkish coast, where ‘holiday’ acquires a completely different meaning for a few months.
The Palm Lines
The impressive actress Coca Bloos portrays an empty existence. Fate has delivered a hard blow.
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