Spectrum Shorts
Overview of films
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Rigid Regime
Erkka Nissinen | 14' | China | World premiere
Nissinen’s videos are characterized by absurdity, humour and deliberate clumsiness. An armless man arrives by helicopter to inspire the local communit -
Rihla
Gerbrand Burger | 11' | Netherlands | European premiere
Through the story of a man travelling from East to West, Rihla presents a kaleidoscopic vision of the West. -
Rise Again
Katarina Zdjelar | 11' | Netherlands | International premiere
Asylum seekers step outside of their prescribed roles as refugees and engage in puzzling social activities in the woods at the edge of town. -
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Visra Vichit Vadakan | 8' | Thailand | World premiere
Listen with your eyes shut and you hear a story about parents and their child. Look with your ears shut and you see a street… -
Rita
Antonio Piazza, Fabio Grassadonia | 18' | Italy | None
Enigmatic short about the blind girl Rita, who enjoys a brief moment of freedom with a boy. Simulation of the experience of being blind. -
Ritournelle
Christopher Becks, Peter Miller | 4' | Germany | None
The roll of 16mm film given to director Becks by his colleague Miller contained a ghost track which seems to have scripted their abstract film. -
River Rites
Ben Russell | 12' | Suriname | None
Exquisite scene, originally shot in Surinam for his Tiger film Let Each One Go Where He May (2009), proves to be a powerful short film… -
Robinsons of Mantsinsaari
Victor Asliuk | 57' | Belarus | World premiere
Wonderful still-lives of nature, daily routines of men and animals sometimes evoking a smile, this is a documentary about the two last inhabitants of -
Rode molen
Esther Urlus | 6' | Netherlands | None
Mondrian’s Red Mill inspired Urlus to study colourful analogue printing techniques, with spectacular results. -
Role Exchange 1975
Marina Abramovic | 5' | Netherlands | None
Film maker exchanges roles with a prostitute for four hours. Both of them assume the entire responsibility. -
Roma
Elisa Miller | 26' | Mexico | International premiere
Moving, restrained fiction from Mexico about an older worker who helps a girl. -
Romance
Georges Schwizgebel | 7' | Canada | None
A dazzling animated visual transcription of a Rachmaninoff scherzo set as a grand romantic saga. By the Swiss maestro Georges Schwizgebel. Screened be