Spectrum Shorts
Overview of films
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Friday Night
Gul Dharmani | 24' | India | World premiere
A surreptitious night on the town takes an unexpected turn for three teenage girls. Indian performance with genre conventions. -
Fried Chicken
Serdar Yilmaz | 13' | Turkey | European premiere
The dinner ritual of a girl who won’t eat chicken alternates with a performance involving a truck with a huge fried chicken on it. -
Full Moon
Chairun Nissa | 16' | Indonesia | International premiere
Nirma, a little girl who tries to avoid her house being demolished, finds out that the full moon can cause problems. Minor drama in a… -
The Furnished Room
Priyanka Chhabra | 8' | India | None
Inspired by the eponymous O. Henry short story, about restless searching and the continuous, never-ending passage of time. -
The Future Is Not What It Used to Be
Mika Taanila | 52' | Finland | None
A portrait by Mika Taanila of one of the unsung pioneers of early electronic art, Finnish scientist and artist Erkki Kurenniemi. -
The Future Will Not Be Capitalist
Sasha Pirker | 19' | Austria | None
Gliding along the slender arches of a modernist highlight, we hear the users reminisce about the heyday of a political ideology. -
The Future’s Getting Old Like the Rest of Us
Beatrice Gibson | 48' | United Kingdom | European premiere
A rewardably complex, part documentary, part fiction film which takes B.S. Johnson’s unorthodox novel House Mother Normal as its formal departure poin -
Futuro – A New Stance for Tomorrow
Mika Taanila | 30' | Finland | None
This is a journey back in time to our recent futuristic past. A documentary by Finnish artist filmmaker Mika Taanila about the rise and fall… -
Gangster Project
Teboho Edkins | 55' | Germany | None
Few white kids dare to enter a violent black township to shoot a film about gangsters. And it’s funny too. -
The Garden of Earthly Delights
Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof | 8' | Canada | None
Handmade 16mm collage and photogram film inspired by Stan Brakhage and Hieronymous Bosch. -
Garden
Ryohei Shimada | 9' | Japan | International premiere
Patterns of grasses, trees and flowers meld, accompanied by the rousing music of Japanese experimental jazz band the Samurai Jazz Quintet. -
The Garden
Ryan Philippi | 40' | USA | World premiere
In a well chosen, minimalist style, we follow a young man in his simple life as an odd job man in the outer outer-suburbs of…