Short Film

  • Amit Dutta – Jangarh Film Ek (2008)

    Amit Dutta2001-2010DocumentaryIndiaShort Film

    The village artist Jangarh Singh Shyam left home and became a well-known contemporary painter. He committed suicide in 2001. Through his art, places and stories, the filmmaker explores the traces he left on his path.Read More »

  • Amit Dutta – The Game of Shifting Mirrors (2020)

    Amit Dutta2011-2020ExperimentalIndiaShort Film

    Quote:
    How do the vicissitudes of contemporary notions of nationhood alter our relationship with cultural patrimony? It’s a question obliquely suggested by Amit Dutta’s latest film. As a camera explores the architecture of a museum, we hear a description of a painting we never see. Eventually, we leave the building behind and examine the remains of a temple, exposed to weather and war. Sensual and rigorous, THE GAME OF SHIFTING MIRRORS reaffirms Dutta’s place as India’s most accomplished experimental filmmaker. (Michael Sicinski)Read More »

  • Petna Ndaliko Katondolo – Matata (2019)

    2011-2020African CinemaArthouseCongo (Brazzaville)Petna Ndaliko KatondoloShort Film

    A woman poses. A man with a camera zeros in on her and takes a picture. But very soon, the shoot degenerates. Each click of the camera sounds like a machine gun. No-one speaks; the editing is disrupted, and with it, the images, the spaces and the timing. The woman escapes. In an abandoned building, a man, as mute as she is, shrinks from her gaze. It is he that the film now follows: he explores a museum exhibiting the history of Africa, its suffering and its external interferences.Read More »

  • Ernesto Baca – Natura (2015)

    Ernesto Baca2011-2020ArgentinaExperimentalShort Film

    Ernesto Baca was born in 1969 in Florencio Varela, in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 1997 he completed his studies in film and video CIEVYC. In 2002 he presented his first feature film “Cabeza de palo” (“Stickhead”) to 16 mm. In 2005 he completed the movie super 8 “Samoa”, which later won a grant for expansion up to 35 mm. In 2008 he introduced the film “Music for Astronauts” (“Music for Astronauts”) which was filmed in super 8 format as well and went to film festivals such as Mar del Plata, Argentina, Vision du Reel in Switzerland and Point of View in Spain. In 2009 completed a documentary short film titled “The Servant” (“The Servant”). In 2010 he came into contact with several principals and students to direct the film “String Theory” (“string theory”) that ended up producing.Read More »

  • Takashi Ito – Grim (1985)

    Takashi Ito1981-1990ExperimentalJapanShort Film

    A sensuous ghost haunts a flat in this unusual ode to plain, generic areas.
    Takashi Ito wrote:
    With this work, I developed/fleshed out the idea I had when making Ghost of peeling only the skin from various objects in the room, floating the skins in midair and then sticking them on different objects. This film was also shot entirely frame-by-frame with long-exposures. Along with Grim, its meaning is “as if to do forever.”Read More »

  • Takashi Ito – Ghost (1984)

    Takashi Ito1981-1990ExperimentalJapanShort Film

    Takashi Ito wrote:
    I made this work because I wanted to try out the idea of floating images in midair that had come to me when making Thunder. The entire work was shot frame-by-frame with long exposures. I filmed this in the company dorm I was living in in the middle of the night after I had come home from work, and thought I might die from what had become my daily pattern of sleeping for two hours in the morning then going off to work.Read More »

  • Tan Chui Mui – Company of Mushrooms (2006)

    2001-2010MalaysiaShort FilmTan Chui Mui

    Synopsis:
    Four men gather at an Italian restaurant. They talk about women. On the surface, it appears like a men’s type of film but it reveals something altogether different as it progresses.Read More »

  • Pham Ngoc Lan – Chuyên moi nhà AKA The Story of Ones (2011)

    2011-2020Pham Ngoc LanShort FilmVietnam

    The Story of Ones gives a face and a sense of place to the unseen and offers a personal counterpoint to the officially sanctioned. Like entering a roomful of stories, the viewer steps into an unfamiliar space guided only by the sound of the Vietnamese state radio tuning in to lifestyle programming, call-in shows and radio dramas. Portraits of daily life are layered atop the aural landscape creating questions and humorous situations and offering the viewer whole new perspectives on what once seemed normal.

    Utilizing the banality of Vietnamese state radio broadcasts, this short film gives a face and a sense of place to the unseen and offers a personal counterpoint to the officially sanctioned.Read More »

  • Takashi Ito – Miira no yume AKA The Mummy’s Dream (1989)

    Takashi Ito1981-1990ExperimentalJapanShort Film

    Takashi Ito wrote:
    The filmic version of a city in which all surface beauty has rotted away. In order to find images of death like landscapes of the city from which people have vanished, and buildings from which the decorations have been stripped away and the inner organs exposed, I walked all over Tokyo taking photographs, then animated them.Read More »

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