Odessa Crash Test (Notes on Film 09)

Also in this combined programme

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  À travers la lune

  • Bright Future Short

  Part science fiction, part homage to film history, this short fuses images of the moon with King Mohammed’s face.
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  Kameradin

  • Bright Future Short

  Based on archival images from Yugoslav cinema, this film shows the fragmented experience of the woman and her broken body.
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  Le cinéma en deux

  • Bright Future Short

  At Claude Chabrol’s request, Patrice Énard arrived on the set of Dr Popal to observe and deconstruct this ‘different’ form of cinema.
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  The Waltons

  • Bright Future Short

  A re-examination of John-Boy’s near-death experience at the sawmill. A homespun midnight deconstruction of an entire era of television mannerism
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  Portrait of Karl Marx as a Young God

  • Bright Future Short

  This absurd documentary about (political) desire consists of collages and drawings with voice-over comments from a telephone speaker.
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  Oneheadword Protection

  • Bright Future Short

  Oneheadword Protection uses stop-motion animation techniques, irrespective of whether objects, cardboard cut-outs or human bodies are used.
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  Even If My Hands Were Full of Truths

  • Bright Future Short

  Reflecting on the legacy of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, this film contemplates how memory might or might not become history.
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  Geschichten vom Kübelkind, Episode 2: Kübelkind’s Kindheit

  • Bright Future Short

  In the second episode of Kübelkind, an afterbirth leads an independent life – until child welfare comes along.
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  Dutch Mountain

  • Bright Future Short

  With his camera movements and unusual cropping of the image, Jan Dibbets moulds the flat landscape into mountains.
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  I Regret

  • Bright Future Short

  From ‘Facebook overshare’ through ‘giving your movie a shitty review’ to ‘missing your own funeral’: everyone has
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  The Burglary

  • Bright Future Short

  Vacationing with her family in Spain, a woman returns to her rented summer house, only to find it burgled.
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  Slide

  • Bright Future Short

  As our perception of speed grows faster and visual information is taken over by powerful computers, a strange spectacle arises.
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  Meltdown

  • Bright Future Short

  The best way to spend the last minute before the apocalypse.