10+10 is a project initiated by the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival to demonstrate the solidarity between Taiwanese film-makers. 20 directors are invited to make a 5-minute short film each on the theme of the “Uniqueness of Taiwan,” but allowed total freedom in all other aspects.Read More »
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Various – 10+10 (2011)
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Frédéric Back – Crac (1980)
1971-1980AnimationCanadaFrédéric BackShort FilmAnimation short depicting the industrialization in the city of Montreal (Canada), as seen from the point of view of a rocking-chair.Read More »
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Jean-Claude Biette – La Partenza (1968)
1961-1970ItalyJean-Claude BietteShort FilmUne rue jonchée de papiers. Les jambes des passants. Un jeune homme traverse la rue. Puis on le retrouve en pleine discussion avec un ami. « Tu es toujours décidé à partir ? – Oui, je pars aujourd’hui à dix sept heures en avion. »
A street, littered by papers. Passersby’s legs. A young man crosses the street. Later, that same man is talking with a friend. “Are you still sure to leave? – Yes, I’m going today at 5 P.M .”
Film restauré en 2010 à partir des éléments 16 mm déposés par Jean-Claude Biette à la Cinémathèque française.Read More »
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Romuald Gantkowski – Z Jerozolimy do Tel-Avivu AKA From Jerusalem to Tel Aviv (1939)
1931-1940DocumentaryIsraelRomuald GantkowskiShort FilmQuote:
Reportage showing views of old and new Jerusalem and the modern buildings of Tel-Aviv. It is one of two (along with ‘Tel Aviv’) reportages made in the late 1930s by Romuald Gantkowski in what was then Palestine.Read More » -
Jirí Trnka – Ruka AKA The Hand (1965)
1961-1970Amos Vogel: Film as a Subversive ArtAnimationCzech RepublicJirí TrnkaShort FilmFrom Amos Vogel’s Film as a Subversive Art:
A disembodied, ‘live’ hand invades the life of an artist-puppet, instructing him what to create, bringing him TV and newspapers (filled with ‘Hand’ activities), finally compelling him to make sculptures of itself. After his death in frustration, the Hand gives him an ornate State funeral as a great artist of the people. A courageous early work of the Czech renaissance.Read More » -
Philippe Lifchitz – La prima donna (1964)
1961-1970FantasyFrancePhilippe LifchitzShort FilmSynopsis:
A story of “La Pasta”, a renowned prima donna, and her extraordinary rival.Read More » -
Don Hertzfeldt – World of Tomorrow Episode Two: The Burden of Other People’s Thoughts (2017)
2011-2020AnimationDon HertzfeldtShort FilmUSAQuote:
Emily Prime is swept into the brain of an incomplete backup clone of her future self.Available from VIMEO VOD. If you liked the film, please consider buying it there, as all the money goes to Don and will fund his next film.Read More »
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Artavazd Peleshian – Nash vyek aka Mer dare aka Our Century (1983)
1981-1990Artavazd PeleshianEpicShort FilmUSSRGoogle Translate wrote:
Always processions, to the glory of “our century”, always this impression of a threat which cannot be said, of a rumor which manifests itself, but does not take shape; our century, we will not forget, it is the century of conquests and genocides, the century of all vanities too: men are going to put all their pretensions to the test. They will fight against the determinisms of nature, will fabricate their legend with cross-dressing, intimidating protocols, daring and obstinacy, to leave as testimony only a few images that tirelessly repeat the absurdity of this vocation. instinctive and totalitarian to colonization and occupation of worlds.Read More » -
Hayao Miyazaki – Mizugumo Monmon AKA Monmon the Water Spider (2006)
2001-2010AnimationHayao MiyazakiJapanShort FilmThe short film’s main character is a water spider who seems to have fallen in love with a water strider. Though she is scared of him at first, the water strider soon gets used to the presence of the spider.Read More »