INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMME 6
LONG SHORTS
Thursday 23 August 9pm

 

Longer shorts are tricky creatures to fit into programmes made up of short miracles that fill the other sessions. But they offer a much different experience, an opportunity to really get to know a character, to richly develop a style or theme, or some time to really grow comfortable in the make believe world into which you step. Sit back and relax…..

Declaration of love
Dmitri Geller, Russia, 12’00
Masterful, lushly coloured example of Russian cutout animation. A young boy draws inspiration from the images of his magic lantern. Slowly, gently this film introduces more and more symbols of idylic childhood as it takes the boy (and the viewer) more and more into the open.

Siberian Express
Pekka Korhonen, Finland, 13’00
Pedro, the rabbit/man bar tender who serves up cactus drinks to his thirsty customers each night seems remarkably hesitant to join his muse, the hairy, volupturous Ramona, on the Siberian Express. This a film that needs every one of its 13 minutes to help you come to grips with the pure surrealist depths of its plot.

The Danish Poet
Torill Kove, Norway, 14’30
ACADEMY AWARD WINNER
Can we trace the chain of events that leads to our birth? Is our existence just conicidence? Do little things matter? As this journey gradually unfolds, it appears that bad weather, an angry dog, slippery planks, a careless postman and hungry goats are threads in the fabric of the narrator’s very existence.

El Doctor
Suzan Pitt, USA, 23’00
A film which operates on so many levels of the bizarre, it’s almost impossible to know where to begin. A drunken small town doctor finds himself immersed in a densely detailed hospital ward inhabited by cast of weirdly wounded souls that could have been animated straight off the pages of the Mexican version of Mad Magazine.

Phantom Canyon
Stacey Steers, USA, 12’00
A curious woman encounters enormous insects and an alluring man with bat wings in a surreal recollection of a pivotal journey. Created from over 4000 meticulous handmade collages incorporating the photographs from Edward Muybridge’s human motion studies of the 188o’s.

Everything will be OK
Don Hertzfeldt, USA, 17’00
BEST SHORT FILM SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL
A series of dark and troubling events forces Bill to reckon with the meaning of his life – or lack thereof. This could well be Hertzfeldt’s masterpiece, packed dense with gags but with a real underlying darkness.

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