Spectrum Shorts
Overview of films
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Lesser Apes
Emily Vey Duke, Cooper Battersby | 19' | Canada | World premiere
Duke & Battersby propose existence is abject, farcical, and messy. An experimental narrative about a primatologist who falls in love with a bonobo. -
Let England Shake
Seamus Murphy | 53' | United Kingdom | None
Short films inspired by and created to accompany all 12 songs on PJ Harvey’s album Let England Shake (2011). An attempt to reveal a little… -
Let Us Persevere in What We Have Resolved Before We Forget
Ben Russell | 20' | USA | None
Playing with anthropological film conventions. Priests on a Pacific island carry out rituals based on the prophecies of messiah John Frum. -
Let Your Light Shine
Jodie Mack | 3' | USA | Dutch Premiere
Eye candy as a special treat. The ultimate photokinetic stroboscopic spectacle for spectacles. Requires prismatic glasses. -
A Letter to Uncle Boonmee
Apichatpong Weerasethakul | 17' | Thailand | None
In the wonderful world of this Thai film magician, a letter can be written to a dead man. Or received from one. -
Letting Off
Chang Heng-ju | 30' | Taiwan | World premiere
A young man works at a convenience store and gets caught up in the lies he tells to avoid losing face. A realistic, yet hopeful… -
Lettre à Mohamed
Christine Moderbacher | 35' | Austria | Dutch Premiere
Tunisia, two years after the revolution. Besides disappointment, we see traces of revolutionary zeal about to ignite. -
Liberty Kids
Moira Tierney | 5' | Ireland | None
Fun, colourful portrait of primary school children in Dublin. The result of a film workshop in the class concerned. -
Lichenometry
50' | -
Live performance by filmmaker Joost Rekveld with composer/musician Yannis Kyriakides and experimental musician/guitarist of The Ex Andy Moor. -
Lies
Jonas Odell | 13' | Sweden | None
Three perfectly true stories about lying presented in three distinctive animated styles. -
Life’s a Hide Out
Jan Willem van Dam | 59' | Netherlands | World premiere
Self-deprecation and Weltschmerz in this road movie about an artist with a mid-life crisis searching for salvation in Latin America. -
Light Plate
Josh Gibson | 10' | Italy | European premiere
Beautiful, nostalgic essay situated between Italian tradition and modernity with views of the countryside. Handmade celluloid, scope cinematography.