Spectrum Shorts
Overview of films
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Medea
Ursula Mayer | 12' | United Kingdom | International premiere
A journey from the ancient to the modern, with pop-cultural icon JD Samson where according to the film, ‘knowing means emptiness and the unthinkable o -
Medium Earth
The Otolith Group | 41' | United Kingdom | European premiere
An audio-visual premonition that channels the millennial time of geology and the seismic psyche of California, to evoke the fractures lying beneath it -
Megatron
Marian Crisan | 14' | Romania | None
Golden Palm winner at Cannes 2008 about the birthday of a little boy at McDonald’s. Father keeps them waiting. -
Mekong Hotel
Apichatpong Weerasethakul | 57' | Thailand | None
Like a backpacker’s dream. On the veranda, with a view of the river, listening to guitar music. Indoors, the spirit of an earlier film. -
memento mori
Dan Browne | 28' | Canada | International premiere
A meditation on immortality. memento mori is a hallucinatory time-lapse made from over 100,000 photographs from the maker’s life. -
Men of the Earth
Andrew Kavanagh | 10' | Australia | European premiere
No dialogue, yet original and emotionally engaging. About road workers engaged in a strange and impressive ritual. -
Metamorfoza
Martha Colburn | 7' | Malta | World premiere
Girl playing marbles turns into a butterfly. Colourful puppet animation in expressive Colburn style turns the chaos of war into beauty. -
Metamorphosis
Geir Hansteen Jorgensen | 4' | Norway | None
Delightfully macabre and funny fiction about the other side of happiness. A girl and a boy together in the grass, what could be more beautiful? -
Metamorphosis
Sándor Kardos | 42' | Hungary | International premiere
Experimental film based on Franz Kafka’s story Metamorphosis about Gregor, who turns into a bug one day and scares everyone around. Unique because of -
Meteor
Christoph Girardet, Matthias Müller | 15' | Germany | None
A voyage from the children’s room to outer space, using elements of feature films, fairy tale moments gone astray and vintage science fiction motifs. -
Metro
Gerard-Jan Claes, Olivia Rochette | 22' | Belgium | None
An underground subway tour connects up intriguing characters and situations. -
Midori-ko
Kurosaka Keita | 56' | Japan | European premiere
It took the filmmaker ten years, but resulted in a beautiful, hand-drawn film. With a dark note and for an adult audience.