Spectrum Shorts
Overview of films
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Departure
S.J. Ramir | 3' | New Zealand | None
First part of New Zealand video diptych that portrays a delayed journey through a grainy metaphysical landscape. -
Des duivels
Eelko Ferwerda, Jasper Wessels | 9' | Netherlands | World premiere
About the age-old battle between Good and Evil. Tygo Gernandt and Juda Goslinga play around with the present and past. ‘Boys will be boys.’ -
Desert Hopes
Michael Patten | 10' | USA | World premiere
Locked in what he perceives as a cage, Roko tries to break the boredom of yet another New Year’s Eve. -
Destination Finale
Philip Widmann | 9' | Germany | None
Original 8mm amateur film, shot in 1964, found in Saigon in 2005 and edited by Widmann with a feeling for drama. -
Le deuil de la cigogne joyeuse
Eileen Hofer | 14' | Lebanon | World premiere
A beautifully minimal, well-shot unsentimental short, reconstructing the last hours of a Lebanese paradise lost. -
Deux inconnus
Lauren Wolkstein, Christopher Radcliff | 14' | France | None
Claustrophobic fiction about the relationship between a man and a boy. At a motel the boy confides in a woman, but is he telling the… -
Um dia frio
Cláudia Varejão | 27' | Portugal | None
The morning in Lisbon starts for each member of the family in their own way. Yet they are linked together. Beautiful acting by the four… -
did i?
Sawa Hiraki | 9' | Japan | None
did I? transports the viewer into a dreamlike state, an immersion into a surrealist world of sound and image. Other rules apply here. -
Un dimanche matin
Damien Manivel | 18' | France | None
Like every Sunday morning, a man walks his dog in the Paris suburbs. -
Dimanches
Valéry Rosier | 15' | Belgium | None
Mild fiction about boring Sundays. With recognisable, tragicomic scenes. Why is it such a tough day for so many people? Screened before The Giants. -
The Diptherians Episode Two: The Rhythm That Forgets Itself
Lewis Klahr | 12' | USA | International premiere
An elliptical narrative that presents a group of sartorially gifted demigods or super-villains (played by e.g. Wooster Group all-stars Kate Valk and W -
The Dirty Ones
Brent Stewart | 11' | France | International premiere
Alienating, stylish fiction produced by Harmony Korine about two Mennonite nuns whose car breaks down somewhere in the southern USA.