Spectrum Shorts
Overview of films
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La playa de Mexico
Martin Morgenfeld, Gastón Margolin | 23' | Argentina | International premiere
Two sisters visit the family holiday home for the first time in years. Frustrations about family relations gradually make way for childhood memories. -
Point de Gaze
Jodie Mack | 5' | USA | None
16mm film of pleasing optical illusions created with various patterns of delicate lacework. The title refers to a typically Belgian type of lace. -
Poised
Dryden Goodwin | 28' | United Kingdom | European premiere
On the brink, considering diving’s metaphysical resonance as a rite of passage between the moment itself and imminent, inescapable change. -
The Police Game
Meng-Jie Lai | 26' | Taiwan | International premiere
A young filmmaker satirises the movies he loves, making a mockery of sex and violence. But things stay fun and pleasant. An ingenious film. -
Polis X
Erkka Nissinen | 15' | Hong Kong | None
An assortment of humoristic and absurd characters inhabit a utopian city jokingly called ‘Polis’, supposedly designed by Le Corbusier and Albert Speer -
Polvo
Angela Reginato | 27' | Mexico | World premiere
The grim story of Mexico City: a metropolis that can eat you alive. An exciting essay about the huge city with an exceptional soundtrack. -
Pomeranie
Maria Murashova | 12' | Russia | World premiere
A black and white, poetical short documentary about a majolica factory, one of those places that are ceasing to exist. -
Populus tremula
Benj Gerdes, Jennifer Hayashida | 9' | Sweden | International premiere
The process from tree to match proves to be the perfect metaphor for the route from state to individual capitalist. Recorded on beautiful 16mm. -
La porta
Piero Messina | 12' | Italy | World premiere
Stylised performance by two gentlemen, shot in elegant black-and-white. During a power failure, a gentleman and a porter meet each other acquainted in -
Portrait #3: House of Sound
Vanessa Renwick | 11' | USA | International premiere
Respectfully, Vanessa Renwick bids farewell to one of the cornerstones of the black community in Portland: the House of Sound record store. -
Positive
Tan Tan | 7' | China | International premiere
A frightening sequence of events that can only lead to disaster. -
Possessed
Fred Worden | 9' | USA | European premiere
Sequence with a passing train, passengers in motion and a woman standing still on the platform becomes a study of illusionary movements.