Spectrum Shorts
Overview of films
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Laitue
Nicholas Brooks | 9' | United Kingdom | None
In Laitue, the screen is a large white sheet of paper where refined sketches and scribbles render a fragmented drama. -
The Lake
Miyakawa Shin’ichi | 44' | Japan | International premiere
Cameraman crawls from lake and squirms through cinema screen. Experimental, yet fun. Burlesque essay on film and drowning yourself. -
La lampe au beurre de yak
Hu Wei | 15' | China | None
Photographer creates staged portraits in a Tibetan village. The backdrops of Disney figures and tropical islands are lowered using a squeaky pulley. -
Landfill 16
Jennifer Reeves | 9' | USA | International premiere
The original images used a complex process to constitute an abstract painting with pulsing patterns. Primal screams from the wilderness fall silent. -
Landscape, Semi-surround
Eriko Sonoda | 9' | Japan | European premiere
Semi-surround landscape projected on 16 screens, showing rhythmically-edited moving images of the passing landscape framed though a train window. -
Last Fragments of Winter
Edmund Yeo | 24' | Japan | European premiere
A Malaysian film student travels to Japan to study and is amazed by many things. About a girl in the snow, for instance. -
Late and Deep
Devin Horan | 17' | Norway | None
In an isolated house in a remote winter forest at night, two human beings undergo an experience of convulsion. A purely visual film. -
Laws of Physics
Michael Palm | 15' | Austria | None
A plunge into the abyss: in one prolonged zoom, the drain in a courtyard comes ever closer. A spider scurries off to avoid our gaze. -
Lay Bare
Paul Bush | 6' | United Kingdom | None
‘It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearance,’ wrote Oscar Wilde. An endless stream of close-ups map the body. -
leeds.talk.trailer
Tony Cokes | 4' | USA | None
Cokes overwhelms the viewer with his opinions about the art world. Intended as a trailer for a longer work. -
Leeg
Peter Van Beneden | 13' | Belgium | None
After a night of heavy boozing, a man finds his apartment almost empty. What has happened? Short fiction about the gravity of everyday life. -
De leeuw
Klaas Arie Westland | 17' | Netherlands | World premiere
Upon his release, Abdel discusses whether he is a danger to society with his parole officer. Convincing acting inter-cut with the making-of.