Spectrum Shorts
Overzicht van films
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El acompañante
Alvaro Delgado Aparicio | 22' | Peru | European premiere
Young tough man and invalid father silently share the housework in a run-down suburb of Lima. The will to break out is there, but is… -
Action: Study
Richard Kerr | 5' | Canada | World premiere
Abstracted study of the silhouette of a person by the sparkling waterside. -
Activated Memory I
Sabrina Ratté | 6' | Canada | World premiere
‘Memory activation is the way that animals like us gain access to our knowledge.’ (David Gilden) -
Adamt
Zelalem Woldemariam | 18' | Ethiopia | None
In Ethiopia music is of a different calibre and overcomes the deepest traumas, even deafness. Rhythmic drama. -
Afghanimation
Allyson Mitchell | 6' | Canada | -
Critical stop-motion animation in which weaving a colourful tapestry symbolises the way in which Canadians manage to disguise the real war stories fro -
Africa
Matti Harju | 9' | Finland | World premiere
Young Finnish filmmaker Harju’s disturbing, raw film gets up close to a psychotic man. We don’t all live in the same reality. -
After Dark
John Hsu | 21' | Taiwan | International premiere
The filmmaker’s muse, Hannah Lin, as an almost blind masseuse. Why doesn’t she want to be cured? What is so comforting about the dark? -
After School Special
Corin Sworn | 20' | Canada | None
A compact, semi-abstract and delirious study of the clichéd teen rebel genre. -
After the Crash
Hito Steyerl | 8' | Austria | World premiere
Notes on the economy of gravity. An airplane graveyard turns out to be an essential link in the contemporary feature film industry. -
Aisha’s Song
Orlando von Einsiedel | 10' | Nigeria | None
A filmmaker with a good ear as well as a good eye. A fabulous sounding portrait of a girl who wasn’t lost. -
Akiba-Field
Devi Kobayashi | 15' | Japan | International premiere
Two women. Two swords. A man in a box. An empty street. All you need to set the scene for the apocalypse. An exercise. A… -
Alice in the Underworld: The Dark Märchen Show!!
Terashima Mari | 58' | Japan | None
An unashamedly gothic version of Alice. For a start, the lead is played by a man. The viewer can determine whether it is kitsch, camp…