Deep Focus Short
Overview of films
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Calling Planet Earth
From Sun Ra to Alice Coltrane, music guides the world of Cauleen Smith that draws freely from local US histories, outer space and speculative (science)… -
A festa e os cães
Leonardo Mouramateus | 25' | Brazil | None
Photographs of various parties trigger memories and anecdotes, culminating in an ode to the role of music in our lives. -
Font màgica
Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof | 6' | Canada | World premiere
Magical spectacle created by subjecting footage of a light fountain in Barcelona to intensive photochemical and digital processing. -
H-E-L-L-O
Cauleen Smith | 11' | USA | International premiere
Greetings to mankind! The five-note sequence from Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) is performed outdoors by New Orleans musicians. -
Half Human, Half Vapor
Mike Stoltz | 12' | USA | International premiere
Outsider artist Vandercar sculpted in his garden. Rumour has it that he was also adept at telepathy. After his death the spirits still seem present. -
Harbour City
Simon Liu | 14' | Hong Kong | International premiere
Hong Kong’s hyperactive fish market in overwhelming colours. Every screening is unique as projection requires two 16mm projectors. -
Havemos de voltar
Kiluanji Kia Henda | 17' | Angola | None
A taxidermied sable antelope is the protagonist in a story about conserving memory and linking Angola’s colonial history to its contemporary influence -
História de uma pena
Leonardo Mouramateus | 30' | Brazil | None
A teacher struggles with the attitude of his students. Slowly, the dynamic in the class moves in unsuspected directions. -
Lessons in Semaphore
Cauleen Smith | 4' | USA | International premiere
A silent film celebrating dialogue. Choreographer Taisha Paggett dances on a grassy empty lot in Chicago, communicating in semaphore. -
Looking Glass Insects
Charlotte Pryce | 4' | USA | None
This play of observation scans Lewis Caroll’s Through the Looking-Glass with magnifying glasses, used by both entomologists and filmmakers alike. -
A Man After Midnight
Su Hui-Yu | 5' | Taiwan | None
Referencing a popular ABBA song, Su Hui-yu’s video conducts a séance of a late-night Taiwanese television variety show where host Frankie
