International Competition
Short Films 2
Thu, 22.01. 22:00 h Filmhaus, Saal 1
Fri, 23.01. 12:00 h Filmhaus, Saal 2 (Rep.)
Night Still
A 2007, 35 mm, Farbe, 09:00 Min.
Regie & Drehbuch: Elke Groen
Ton: Andreas Bertram
Hurried flocks of clouds are flying over the summits of the Dachstein mountains. Lights are flickering like morse behind the windows of solitary mountain stations. Gondolas dash by like strange flying objects. A wind wheel is spinning frantically. Here and there people are appearing – phantom-like. The moon rises, glows, falls, disappears and yet will always start to rise again.
New Education Series - Canaries In Colour
NZ 2007, Beta-SP, Farbe, 03:30 Min.
Regie & Animation: Jill Kennedy
Ton & Musik: John Payne
Produktion: New Zealand Film Commission, Wellington/Neuseeland
“New Educational Series - Canaries In Colour” is a nostalgic pastiche of found graphic material from AV learning programs of the 1970's. The Viewer is taken on a psychedelic journey through the Waimoto Caves of New Zealand and back again.
Radio Kebrle
CZ 2006, DV, Farbe, 16:00 Min.
Regie: Zdeněk Durdil
Drehbuch: Džian Baban, Zdeněk Durdil, Vojtech Mašek
Kamera: Braňo Pažitka
Produktion: Bionaut Films
Co-Produktion: FAMU Studios & Goethe-Institut, Prag
Prior to founding his legendary Monstrkabaret, renowned variety artist and
entertainer Fred Brunold scraped by doing anything and everything. As an employee of a certain parasitic radio station, for instance. Fred’s rich experience from his reporting job is illustrated by the enlightening story about little Janik and his dangerous excursion to see his grandfather Jaroslav Kebrle.
Alone
E 2008, DV, S/W, 03:06 Min.
Regie/Drehbuch/Animation/Schnitt/Ton: Gerard Freixes Ribera
Musik: Gioachomo Rossini
Darsteller: Clayton Moore (Archive footage)
The heroic characters in mainstream fiction always show individualist attitudes, here the hero individualism is taken to its complete extreme.
Prototyp
F 2007, 35 mm, Farbe, 02:05 Min.
Regie/Drehbuch/Schnitt: Yves Ackermann
Kamera: Guillaume Brault
Ton & Musik: Benedikt Wolfgang Schiefer
Darsteller: Daniel Suter
Produktion: Le Fresnoy, Studio National Tourcoing/Frankreich
“Prototype” is a 2-minute film, showing a man in the process of being shot. The hail of bullets shakes his body, his hands cramp, he reels round, end of the film. Focus is isolated on the action itself, the shooting, the death. An archetypal image that triggers off associations. The performance of the action generates an exemplary depiction, a prototype.
Outlaw
USA 2008, MiniDV, Farbe, 03:00 Min.
Regie/Schnitt/Musik: Ann Steuernagel
“Outlaw” is a “recycled" cowboy movie composed from found 16mm film footage. Through radical editing and layering, “Outlaw” accentuazes that which is both iconic and ecstatic in the traditional Western.
Gravity
BE 2007, R: Nicolas Provost, DV, Farbe, 06:00 Min.
The cinematic kiss is one of the most archetypical images in film history. It is usually a reassuring and sometimes climactic element in a movie’s storyline. Not in Nicolas Provost’s ‘Gravity’ though: with stroboscopic effects, more than a dozen kissing scenes, most from stereotypical 1950s romantic dramas, are superimposed. The sugary and dramatic soundtrack of romantic film music contrasts with the deconstructed images.
The pain of being thirsty
USA 2007, R: David Yun, 06:22 Min.
A film that juxtaposes found footage of Japanese Internment camps in
Arizona with a found letter written by a Muslim prisoner accused of
running Al-Qaeda websites and awaiting extradition to Guantanamo Bay.
In linking the two, the film traces a connection between the way
Japanese Americans were perceived during World War II and how Muslims
in the U.S. and abroad are being treated in a post-9/11 world while
raising larger questions about the fragility of our own freedoms.
Planet A
F 2008, HD, Farbe, 07:40 Min.
Regie/Drehbuch/Schnitt: Momoko Seto
Kamera: Momoko Seto, Jean René Lorand,
Animation: Brice Bignami, Mihai Grecu
Ton: Ronan Gicquel
Musik: Yann Leguay
Produktion: Le Fresnoy, Studio National Tourcoing/Frankreich
The world has become a vast dried out planet, where the growing of cotton, over exploited for economical reasons is the main cause of desertification. A saline desert covers acres of dried out land where strange salt trees appear. This phenomenon echoes an even greater ecological disaster, the desertification of the Aral Sea. And man is always responsible...
The Atomium Age
GB 2007, Super 8, Farbe, 02:25 Min.
Regie/Kamera/Animation/Schnitt/Musik: Ian Helliwell
Split-screen film shot at the Atomium in Brussels, the centrepiece of the world's Fair in 1958. The remarkable 335 feet high structure representing an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times, is captured with spontaneous super-8 camerawork, in all its silver spherical glory.
Scope
D 2008, DV, Farbe & S/W, 04:57 Min.
Regie/Schnitt/Ton: Volker Schreiner
The loudspeaker makes up the central motif – on masts, in the station concourse, on roofs, in car radios, living room radios, headphones, telephone receivers or radio sets. Listeners appear solely in sections or blurred. Sound collages and sounds pour out of the loudspeakers – obscure parts of communication, distorted music and announcements, tuning noises, rustling.
Palmu
Palm tree
FIN 2008, 16 mm, Farbe, 09:56 Min.
Regie & Drehbuch: Elina Talvensaari
Kamera: Joonas Pulkkanen
Schnitt: Markus Leppälä
Ton: Pinja Kuusela
Produktion: University of Art and Design Helsinki School of Motion Picture, Television and Production Design Hämeetie/Helsinki
Is there a place where the gras is always greener?
Vertigo Rush
A 2007, 35 mm, Farbe, 19:00 Min.
Regie/Drehbuch: Johann Lurf
Programmierung: Johann Horvat, Marko Vuco
In the interplay of nature and (optical) machine, the hidden becomes visible. „Vertigo Rush“ is reminiscent of the clever perception experiments of New American Cinema of the 1960s. In the second part of the film, the pictorial space narrows to a nocturnal shock corridor and flows into a pure frenzy of distorted perspective, in the controlled intoxication of speed: the serene velocity of the mechanical gaze unleashed.
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