Deep Focus Short

Overview of films

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  Chronicles of a Lying Spirit by Kelly Gabron

  • Deep Focus Short

  Cauleen Smith | 8' | USA | None

  Speaking through her alter ego and a male voice, Cauleen Smith’s biography contrasts semi-true fiction with media representation.
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  Cinq minutes de cinéma pur

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  Henri Chomette | 5' | France | None

  What is pure cinema? Henri Chomette’s answer to this question is a seminal investigation into the nature of film.
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  O completo estranho

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  Leonardo Mouramateus | 24' | Brazil | None

  A power cut leads to an intimate conversation between two strangers. A celebration of chance, a meditation on belonging.
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  Concerning Flight: Five Illuminations in Miniature

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  Charlotte Pryce | 8' | USA | None

  The mystery of insect flight explored. Interpretations of a mythological and fantastical nature are illuminated in motion and time.
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  Concrete Affection – Zopo Lady

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  Kiluanji Kia Henda | 12' | Angola | None

  In the empty city of Luanda, Angola, there are only ghosts and memories. A man has to take the painful decision to leave his city…
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  Crow Requiem

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  Cauleen Smith | 11' | USA | International premiere

  Smith brings together the forced migration of birds, the treatment of people of colour and Syracuse’s connection to the birth of stereoscopic ph
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  Curious Light

  • Deep Focus Short

  Charlotte Pryce | 4' | USA | None

  Lewis Caroll’s Through the Looking-Glass illuminated. Illustrations retreat into the fibre of the page, light dissolves into the film emuls
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  Discoveries on the Forest Floor 1-3

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  Charlotte Pryce | 4' | USA | None

  Fragile leaves and fine threads of fungus string together, like an obscure genre of 17th century painting: Forest Floor Paintings.
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  A Distant Episode

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  Ben Rivers | 18' | United Kingdom | None

  A meditation on the illusion of filmmaking, shot behind the scenes of a film being made on the other-worldly beaches of Morocco in silvery black-and-w
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  Short Profile Leonardo Mouramateus 1

  • Deep Focus Short

  Personal memories and photographs turn these films into passionately shared anecdotes. A reminder of the beauty of chance and random encounters.
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  Elli

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  Esther Urlus | 8' | Netherlands | World premiere

  Calm shots of a seascape also examine optical colour mixing using various flicker effects. Not suitable for epileptics.
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  The Heart of the Matter

  • Deep Focus Short

  Cinq minutes de cinéma pur, Prima Materia, the internationale premiere of Pwdre Ser: the rot of stars and the magic lantern performance The Tears of…